Goldman Sachs Predicts Venezuela's Oil Output May Rise... After 'Intervention'
The financial elite, it seems, has calculated that now would be a fantastic time for Venezuela's oil output to 'rise in the long term.' This comes, conveniently, after a multi-year campaign of crippling U.S. sanctions (U.S. Treasury, Executive Order 13850, 2018; Executive Order 13884, 2019) designed to destabilize the economy and, as former National Security Advisor John Bolton publicly stated,
target 'the jugular of the Maduro regime.' These actions, rebranded blandly as 'intervention,' shattered the nation's ability to maintain its infrastructure and refine its own oil, slashing production by millions of barrels daily. One might wonder if Goldman Sachs also publishes reports on how to profit from re-lighting a fire you started. The narrative shift from 'rogue state needing regime
change' to 'potential oil supplier' as soon as market conditions (read: high prices) make it palatable is less analysis, more financial opportunism dressed up as foresight. It’s almost as if the 'human rights concerns' conveniently dissipate when Western companies eye a slice of that sweet, sweet crude.