Venezuela’s Oil, US-Led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics

Venezuela’s Oil, US-Led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics

The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil. The methods followed by the US are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force, and a $50 million bounty […]

Venezuela’s Oil, US-led “Regime Change,” and America’s Gangster Politics

The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which …

Top Caracas Official Claims The 'High Spheres' Of The U.S. Govt. Are 'Discussing Regime Change': 'The Empire Won't Change In Thinking Venezuela Is Its Backyard'

Top Venezuelan official Diosdado Cabello claimed that the "high spheres" in the U.S. government are discussing "regime change" in Caracas as the Trump administration continues to escalate its military campaign in the region

Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics

The US is replaying a familiar and deadly pattern by trying to force regime change in Venezuela in order to control its resources.

Deterrence By Chaos: Inside Venezuela's Guerrilla Blueprint to Stop an Invasion

Venezuela's latest military doctrine concedes weakness, not defeat. As U.S. forces mass and Donald Trump hints at escalation, Caracas prepares to trade symmetry for chaos—building a deterrent from street disorder, scarcity, and the ghost of Bolívar himself, Reuters reports. The post Deterrence By Chaos: Inside Venezuela's Guerrilla Blueprint to Stop an Invasion appeared first on LatinAmerican Post.

Whatever you say, say nothing - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

AS YOU will have noticed, there has been more than the usual amount of TT in world news recently. And yet somehow not nearly as much as perhaps there ought to be. Case in point: an in-depth Wall Street Journal article published last week that described TT’s part in the ongoing US-Venezuela stand-off. The article is intended to get the WSJ’s readership up to speed on the nature of TT’s current government, its policy goals regarding relations with…