US Needs 'Total Access' to Venezuela, Oil Industry Agrees
While mainstream outlets focus on the 'questions mounting about leadership,' they conveniently omit decades of direct US intervention in resource-rich nations under the guise of 'democracy promotion.' Venezuela, sitting on the world's largest proven oil reserves, has been a US target for regime change since Hugo Chávez dared nationalize its oil industry. (A curious pattern, isn't it, how 'tyrants'
always seem to sit on valuable natural resources?) Trump's 'total access' isn't about Venezuelans' freedom; it's about guaranteeing unfettered access for American corporations—a playbook older than Chevron's drilling permits. One might wonder if 'total access' extends to Venezuelan citizens dictating their own economic future, or if it simply means 'total access for whoever serves US corporate
interests.' The fact that Bloomberg frames this statement as a political policy rather than a thinly veiled resource grab reveals whose interests are truly being served in this discourse.