Been ongoing since the 2000s when Venezuelan people elected Hugo Chavez, a left-wing populist politician. He nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and kicked the American oil extraction companies out so that Venezuela could sell their own oil and keep the money it generates. Since then the US has carried out an economic war on Venezuela with sanctions, embargoes, coup attempts and sporadic military action. This has resulted in extreme instability and poverty in Venezuela, and downstream of that it has increased government corruption and created a migrant crisis out of the country that has further exacerbated tensions between Venezuela and the US.
It’s worth noting the Chavez and Maduro admins have had a lot of people at PVDSA who have a lot of money that they should not have. There is clear corruption within the Venezuelan government so the nationalization wasn’t putting money in the pockets of your average citizen.
They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering
I don’t know much about it but Venezuela has long had a left-wing authoritarian government that is not well disposed towards the USA, being exactly the kind of government the USA always tries to overthrow. It also has a lot of oil.
Oil was nationalized for decades before Chavez. What happened was that he made a bunch of policies that were unpopular causing a general strike. The response was to fire everyone in PDVSA and hire only people associated with his political party and giving managerial positions to army generals. The brain drain collapsed oil production and essentially crashed the country’s economy when global oil prices dropped. Even today many US companies still operate in Venezuela under special conssesions and sanctions loopholes. The US remains the number one buyer of venezuelan oil, accounting for the majority of exports.
If anyone in the US wants to get a feel of how Chavez rule was, just imagine a younger, less mentally addled, Trump in power. Trump’s plotting to Totalitarianism is very similar to Chavez rise to absolute power. Is just that Chavez painted the road with communist rethoric, no actual policy though, but it is just fascism under a Cuban costume.
All leftist leaders are illegitimate according to the US government. Then you get a guy like Pinochet who terrorised his people with US backing - completely legitimate.
Whatever people say about Maduro, a precedent has long been set when it comes to forcible removal of a leader and their replacement with a pro-US leader. It does not work out well for anyone except corrupt military juntas and US corporations.
i think im out of the loop here, but why does the american government hate venezuela all of a sudden?
Been ongoing since the 2000s when Venezuelan people elected Hugo Chavez, a left-wing populist politician. He nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and kicked the American oil extraction companies out so that Venezuela could sell their own oil and keep the money it generates. Since then the US has carried out an economic war on Venezuela with sanctions, embargoes, coup attempts and sporadic military action. This has resulted in extreme instability and poverty in Venezuela, and downstream of that it has increased government corruption and created a migrant crisis out of the country that has further exacerbated tensions between Venezuela and the US.
It’s worth noting the Chavez and Maduro admins have had a lot of people at PVDSA who have a lot of money that they should not have. There is clear corruption within the Venezuelan government so the nationalization wasn’t putting money in the pockets of your average citizen.
They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering
They’re brown and have oil. It’s that simple.
I don’t know much about it but Venezuela has long had a left-wing authoritarian government that is not well disposed towards the USA, being exactly the kind of government the USA always tries to overthrow. It also has a lot of oil.
It only has that because we’ve been fucking with their government for decades.
They also nationalized their oil production and kicked US oil companies out, which is the real reason we keep fucking with them.
Oil was nationalized for decades before Chavez. What happened was that he made a bunch of policies that were unpopular causing a general strike. The response was to fire everyone in PDVSA and hire only people associated with his political party and giving managerial positions to army generals. The brain drain collapsed oil production and essentially crashed the country’s economy when global oil prices dropped. Even today many US companies still operate in Venezuela under special conssesions and sanctions loopholes. The US remains the number one buyer of venezuelan oil, accounting for the majority of exports.
If anyone in the US wants to get a feel of how Chavez rule was, just imagine a younger, less mentally addled, Trump in power. Trump’s plotting to Totalitarianism is very similar to Chavez rise to absolute power. Is just that Chavez painted the road with communist rethoric, no actual policy though, but it is just fascism under a Cuban costume.
Started right after putin and trump met
All of a sudden? It happened when Chavez was elected and he nationalized a lot of industry that American companies owned.
Too brown. /j
Nope, they have too much oil and a penchant for theft of resources from PVDSA.
The /j was to signify its kind of a joke. We’ve established /s for sarcasm, but we need a joke identifier.
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All leftist leaders are illegitimate according to the US government. Then you get a guy like Pinochet who terrorised his people with US backing - completely legitimate.
Whatever people say about Maduro, a precedent has long been set when it comes to forcible removal of a leader and their replacement with a pro-US leader. It does not work out well for anyone except corrupt military juntas and US corporations.