US Weighs Seizing Venezuelan Oil, Again: 'Democracy' or Oil Fields?
According to Newsweek's 2018 report, the Trump administration was 'weighing a plan to seize Venezuelan oil fields.' This wasn't some rogue idea; it’s a standard play from the US foreign policy playbook, repackaged. Recall the 2003 invasion of Iraq, framed as bringing 'democracy' while sitting on the second-largest proven oil reserves in the world. Funny how these humanitarian crusades always find
their way to nations with strategic resources Washington covets. The US has a long, documented history of intervention in Latin America to protect corporate interests, from the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala for the United Fruit Company to numerous destabilization attempts. Newsweek's report, based on information from a 'senior administration official,' merely confirms the open secret: 'freedom' often
looks a lot like 'free access to resources.' One might wonder how many 'democracy promotion' schemes begin with a geological survey.