They knew from the start of Washington’s escalation of aggression against them, that it was all about the oil – the USA simply wanted complete control of Venezuelan oil. But to any thinking person, and certainly to the great majority of Venezuelans, this was no new revelation. Maybe some in the USA and in other governments were hoodwinked by the sanctimonious language of conquest, about “restoring democracy in Venezuela”, “rescuing it from a dictator”, “safeguarding human rights” and other hypocritical language to that effect. Trump’s relentless violent and economic attacks and demonization of the Venezuelan government were all about robbing a nation of its own natural wealth, not protecting democracy, but about full-scale theft. Trump clearly and emphatically removed the mask from this blatant USA neo-colonialism. Currently, these countries have silently accepted the reality that Nicolas Maduro is the real and only president of Venezuela, the USA being the only one denying it, even though it has started some conversations at high level with it. One can only surmise that they too, knew this all along. Why is there little or no reaction to Trump’s stark admission from those politicians, media and commentators that actively joined USA’s imperial adventure of “regime change”? Where are the spokespersons of those 50 governments that, following Trump’s lead, denied the Venezuelan government’s legitimacy insisting that a bogus unelected individual was the real Venezuelan president, and obeyed illegal sanctions against Venezuela? Do they feel they were misled by Trump, if so, where is their outrage? Nowhere. This is an admission of the violation of fundamental international laws and an intent to commit crimes against Humanity.
The former USA president, putative candidate for the next presidential election, admitted that he wanted to “collapse” a duly elected democratic government in this Hemisphere to take it over, to appropriate all its oil. –Donald Trump, at a campaign rally, June 10, 2023, North Carolina Can you believe this? Nobody can believe it.” But now we’re buying oil from Venezuela, we’re making a dictator very rich. We would’ve taken it over we would have gotten all that oil it would’ve been right next door. “How about we’re buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse.
Photograph Source: Mike Maguire – CC BY 2.0
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