US Could Lift Venezuela Sanctions to Ease Oil Sale (Again)
The mainstream narrative frames this potential policy shift as pragmatic. They carefully omit the fact that these sanctions, imposed under various US administrations, have crippled Venezuela's economy, leading to widespread suffering, all while the US government concurrently decries the 'authoritarian' Maduro regime. It’s a familiar playbook: demonize, sanction, destabilize, then selectively
engage when domestic interests (read: cheap oil) demand it. One might wonder where the 'concern for democracy' disappears to when Chevron needs a good quarter. This isn't about 'easing tensions' or a sudden change of heart; it's about managing global energy markets and domestic political optics. The perpetual 'humanitarian crises' in sanction-plagued nations are only acknowledged when they serve a
larger geopolitical or economic aim for Washington. How many years of economic strangulation just to perform this predictable pivot?