Trump Pitches Venezuelan Oil to Big Oil: 'Regime Change for Rich Guys'
The mainstream framing suggests rebuilding Venezuela's 'dilapidated' oil infrastructure is just good business. What's conveniently omitted is the decades of U.S. sanctions, culminating in Trump's 2019 oil embargo, explicitly designed to cripple that infrastructure and starve the Chavista regime. Now, the same administration wants Exxon, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips to swoop in and 'invest' in what
Washington broke—after driving out these same companies years ago under Chávez's nationalization. Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is 'imploring' Chevron to disclose its involvement in Trump's 'extra-constitutional military operation' and 'regime change' tactics. One might ask if American corporations are simply following the path cleared by American foreign policy, which often paves the way with
destabilization before commercial 'opportunities' arise. How many times must the U.S. government break a country and then ask its corporations to 'fix' it for profit?