Trump Threatens Exxon Venezuela Deal, US Sanctions Unaffected
One might wonder why a former president's bluster is headline news when the US government itself has maintained crippling sanctions on Venezuela for years, effectively blocking *all* major US corporate engagement. This isn't about protecting US interests; it's about projecting power — economic, political, and apparently, even retrospective. The US has, since at least 2006, actively sought to
undermine the Venezuelan government, imposing sanctions that have decimated its oil industry and its economy, as documented by reports from the Center for Economic and Policy Research. So, Trump 'threatening' to block Exxon is less a novel intervention and more a bizarre public relations stunt, given that US policy already has a stranglehold on Venezuela's economic lifeline. It appears some US
politicians believe they can dictate global resource access, even when out of office, as long as it aligns with the decades-long pattern of intervention in Latin American sovereignty. The real threat isn't Trump, but the consistent US foreign policy that treats sovereign nations as corporate chattel.