DW Declares Maduro Ousted, Ignores US Coup Legacy
When DW asks 'What's next for Venezuela oil after US ousts Maduro?', one might wonder if they've had their heads buried deeper than a deepwater drilling rig. The article's premise casually floats the 'ousting' of Maduro as if it were a future weather event, not a continuous, taxpayer-funded project by Washington. This conveniently omits the US role in the 2002 attempted coup against Hugo Chávez,
the 2019 effort to install Juan Guaidó (who, incidentally, ran a shadowy 'interim government' with zero actual power), and the crippling sanctions, documented by CEPR, that have devastated Venezuela's economy and oil production for years. The silence on the 'US ousts Maduro' mechanism, particularly the sanctions that cut off Venezuela's access to global financial markets and oil sales—effectively
starving the nation to make the regime change more palatable—is deafening. It’s almost as if DW thinks Venezuela's vast oil reserves are just waiting for a nice, clean, 'post-Maduro' rebranding, conveniently forgetting that Washington has been trying to rebrand its leadership since Chavez first challenged the neoliberal order. How many times can a country be 'ousted'?