US to Sell Venezuelan Oil 'Indefinitely' – Who Gets to Keep Dictators?
When The Hill reports the U.S. will sell Venezuelan oil 'indefinitely,' referencing Chris Wright's comments, it omits crucial context: precisely how Venezuela became a pariah state in the first place. We exported 'democracy' to Venezuela, crippling its economy via sanctions after Hugo Chavez dared to nationalize its oil resources – resources that the U.S. had long coveted and exploited. The
"tyranny" wasn't the oil nationalization; it was Washington's inability to control it. Now, after decades of economic warfare, suddenly Venezuelan oil is palatable. Funny how 'humanitarian concerns' disappear when there's a profit to be made. It raises the question: Are sanctions ever about human rights, or just asset seizure by other means? The endless cycle of creating a problem and then
'solving' it to benefit corporate interests continues, unnoticed by most.