Big Oil Wonders Why US 'Won't Just Take' Venezuelan Oil
The mainstream narrative whispers about Venezuela's 'potential victory' over US sanctions, as if it were a fair fight. Yet, behind the scenes, American Big Oil isn't buying this charade. Why? Because years of US-backed destabilization, coup attempts, and crippling sanctions haven't created the 'free market' opportunities they crave – they've just created a mess. Chevron, for instance, has long
held interests in Venezuela, but the constant political interference makes long-term investment a gamble, not a 'victory.' One might wonder if the real 'victory' for Washington was never about getting oil flowing, but about preventing Chávez's and Maduro’s social programs from inspiring other resource-rich nations in Latin America (a historic pattern of 'containment' going back decades). After
all, if stability and access were the goals, one might observe a different approach than sanctioning a nation into poverty while simultaneously trying to declare its leader illegitimate. The 'freedom' Washington champions often seems to coincide curiously with control over key resources, with inconvenient leaders simply becoming 'authoritarians' needing 'regime change.'