Trump’s Oil Heist in Venezuela
Steve Ellner and Ricardo Vaz placed Trump’s latest claims in a long context of struggle for control of Venezuela’s oil industry.
After launching a military attack against Caracas and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump made his goal clear: seize the oil.
Historian Steve Ellner and journalist Ricardo Vaz explained how this outcome is not an aberration, but rather the latest chapter in a long-standing struggle over PDVSA, oil sovereignty, and U.S. hemispheric dominance—where economic warfare supplants diplomacy and state power is deployed for private gain.
Source: theAnalysis.News
