The
Trump administration is openly engaging in a blatant effort to
overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
It’s a
campaign aimed at regime change, and it’s being publicly promoted
as an opportunity to steal Venezuelan oil for the benefit of U.S.
corporations. They’re not even pretending. But this is not some
insane Twitter thought spewed by Trump after guzzling down gallons of
Fox and Friends. It’s open imperialism, and it’s not just being
embraced by powerful Republicans, but Democrats as well.
This
push for regime change in Venezuela did not appear in a vacuum. The
CIA has been plotting with so-called rebels in Venezuela from the
early days of the Trump administration.
As
Donald Trump has cozied up to strongmen and dictators across the
world — from Vladimir Putin to Mohammed bin Salman, Rodrigo
Duterte, Kim Jong-un, el-Sisi of Egypt — it seems that he’s
found one so-called strongman that he can’t tolerate. And that
leader happens to have the largest reserves of oil of any country in
the world.
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