US 'Humanitarian Concern' in Venezuela: Oil or Rights?
NPR dutifully reports on Venezuelan fears regarding potential new US sanctions on their oil, presenting it as another in a line of local crises. What's left unsaid, however, is the long, documented history of US interference in Venezuela, from backing coup attempts in 2002 to recognizing an unelected opposition leader in 2019, all while imposing a crippling sanctions regime that has starved the
economy and its people. This isn't just 'another crisis' in Venezuela; it's a predictable outcome of US foreign policy, one where economic strangulation is rebranded as concern for 'democracy.' We have to ask: when US policy consistently targets a nation's ability to trade its most valuable resource, leaving its citizens destitute, is the 'fear' truly about the impact of sanctions, or the veiled
intent behind them? It appears some nations only achieve 'crisis' status when their oil becomes inconvenient to Washington's geopolitical aspirations, with 'humanitarian' concerns following suspiciously close behind the barrel count.