The White House's delusions about Venezuelan oil and other resources no longer seem to be sufficiently camouflaged. The supposed war on drug trafficking is a mask that has long since fallen. However, the aggression is now in its 25th week, and one after another, its hegemonic intentions are being revealed.
Not content with recently stealing a very important asset of the South American nation's energy heritage, Citgo, using fraudulent judicial mechanisms, or with capturing a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea last week, yesterday U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was ordering "the total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela."
That nation "is completely surrounded by the largest Navy ever assembled in the history of South America," said the U.S. president, continuing his blackmail: "It will only grow, and the impact on them will be like nothing they have ever seen before, until they return to the United States all the oil, land, and other assets they previously stole from us."
The Bolivarian government emphasized in a statement that this is a "grotesque, reckless, and serious threat" against the integrity and sovereign rights of the Republic, which violates international law, free trade, and free navigation.
The Republican assumes that the oil, land, and mineral wealth of the Bolivarian homeland "are his property," the document states, while emphasizing, as Washington's true aspiration, the usurpation of those resources through "gigantic campaigns of lies and manipulation."
The president also lashed out at migrants—another of his fashionable whims—by asserting that "the foreigners and criminals that the Maduro regime has sent to the United States during the weak and inept Biden administration are being returned at a rapid pace." This is unequivocal proof that the imperialist psychological warfare aims to subdue the Venezuelan decision-making force, the people.
On the other hand, let us remember that there is currently a $50 million bounty on the head of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as he has been accused of leading the non-existent Cartel of the Suns.
Thus, the escalation in pressure to destabilize the people includes, in addition to slander and military aggression, maritime piracy, because aerial piracy has already been used previously. Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, made this clear in an interview with Vanity Fair: "He wants to keep flying ships until Maduro surrenders."
These actions are part of the regime change strategy necessary to not only subdue Venezuela, but also the nations in the area that oppose his illegal interventionism and defend sovereignty and self-determination as their banners.
