Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics

The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil.

The methods followed by the U.S. are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West.

The U.S. is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace. For the past two decades, Venezuela has been a persistent target of U.S. regime change. The motive, which is clearly laid out by President Donald Trump, is the roughly 300 billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Orinoco belt, the largest petroleum reserves on the planet.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/06/venezuelan-oil-american-gangster-politics/