Trump's Billion-Dollar Venezuela Fantasy: Oil Executives to the Rescue!
In a surreal White House meeting with nearly two dozen oil executives, Donald Trump declared, "We’re going to be making the decision as to which oil companies are going to go in," predicting a swift $100 billion investment in Venezuela. The framing suggests a unilateral corporate benevolence, entirely omitting the extensive history of U.S. sanctions, coup attempts, and destabilization efforts
designed to incapacitate Venezuela's oil industry and economy since the Hugo Chávez presidency. One might wonder if this 'agreement' comes with a complimentary regime change package. This isn't about mutual economic benefit; it's a predictable rerun of resource colonialism, thinly veiled as a return to 'normalcy.' The immediate focus isn't on the Venezuelan people's welfare, but on which 'chosen'
corporations will extract wealth. The 'investment' isn’t for Venezuela; it’s for corporate shareholders and the political leverage it creates. After years of strangling Venezuela's economy, the 'solution' is, naturally, the very corporations who benefit from the resulting chaos.