Venezuelan 'Leader' Calls for US Unity, Oil Companies Get Their Man
The Hill dutifully reports that Venezuela's 'interim president' Juan Guaidó is calling for warmer US relations and for 'outside investors' to resurrect the nation's oil industry. It's a heartwarming tale of newfound diplomacy, if you conveniently forget that Guaidó wasn't actually elected by Venezuelans but rather unilaterally declared president by the US and its allies in 2019, sparking an
attempted coup. This 'leader' became a 'leader' because Washington said so, not because of democratic process. (One might call that... intervention.) The media rarely bothers to ask why a country with the world's largest proven oil reserves would suddenly need 'outside investors' (read: US oil giants) after decades of US sanctions crippled its state-owned industry. It's almost as if orchestrating
economic collapse and installing a puppet government is a tried-and-true method for 'opening up' markets. (Just ask Iraq, Libya, or, well, almost any Latin American nation receiving 'freedom' from the US.)