Wall Street Salivates Over 'Post-Maduro' Caracas, Forgetting Sanctions
Corporate media outlets, ever the eager real estate agents for global capital, are now painting a picture of a revitalized Venezuela ripe for the picking. The FT, for instance, highlights financial firms like Invictus Global Management assessing the 'opportunity' in a 'post-Maduro' landscape. What's conveniently sidelined in this rosy forecast? The crippling US sanctions, specifically those
imposed by the Trump administration in 2019 and upheld by Biden, that directly targeted the nation's oil sector and financial lifeline. A 2019 report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) attributed over 40,000 deaths to these sanctions between 2017 and 2018 alone. The FT frames this as a natural economic downturn; one might charitably call it 'unnatural resource extraction via
economic warfare.' So, Washington orchestrates economic strangulation, then Wall Street swoops in, ready to 'develop' a nation it helped immiserate. It’s a familiar, almost poetic, sequence. The media's role, it seems, is to provide the soothing background music while the assets are re-distributed. How many nations must be systemically kneecapped before their 'liberation' becomes profitable?