• Was there ever any doubt about trump’s intention?

    Of course he is doing this, he’s a monster.

  • I think that is the common understanding. The reason it’s not bandied about publicly is the amazing power of the billionaire owned media. We need to change those rules about media ownership before everything merges into one big ball of goo.

      • I still think the tee shirt that you get at 1 billion of “congrats you won capitalism” and then get to earn no more money ever - is the best idea.

  • Whatever is going on we can be sure broadcast media is hiding it.

  • not like maduro wanst doing the same thing before, plus the current regime hasnt change, just more aligned to trump.

    • That’s really insane, given how people I know left Venezuela because of a lack of food

  • Yea, what did the press expect to happen, there’s a reason little Marco gets called the viceroy of Venezuela.

    Exxon etc. get to be the 21st century east India company. Latin America should be arming and uniting right now, Trump and the USA can pick each country off individually but not if they act together.

    • Latin America should be arming and uniting right now.

      Instead apparently they look at the far reich shit shows around the world and have decided “yes please, I’ll have some of that too.”

    • Venezuelans were repeatedly told they were trading one dictator for another with Trump by literally every other Latin American that isn’t a right wing dickwad, and their response was to tell every other Latin American to shut up because “they don’t know what it’s like” (never mind the fact that nearly every Latin American country had to survive through US backed dictatorships) or that they knew they were going to take the oil but that it was a step in the right direction 🙄.

      Venezuelan online discourse now loves to shit on Delcy’s puppet government while conveniently forgetting to mention who keeps it propped up.

  • 12 days

    All you need to understand it is to look at a map of where the most oil is known to be found

    • Dismissing it because it is normal is the wrong reaction. Our sense of rage at injustice needs to accumulate into meaningful action in order for anything to improve.

      • What I think they’re getting at is that this is and always has been what the US does, but they are usually very insistent that it’s ‘DELIVERING FREEDOM’ or some other spiel.

        Growing up is realising the bluff and then getting mad at how long we’ve been tricked.

  • Yep. Locked that puppet state into a price of $65 per barrel while market price is nearly $100 and will only go up.