Many years ago, a journalist asked Hugo Chávez why he was so sure that the United States wanted to attack Venezuela. The answer was extremely simple: oil. Chávez said that Washington needed a controllable regime in Caracas in order to gain access to the vast Venezuelan reserves. When the journalist asked whether such a stance toward the United States was not paranoid, Chávez replied: “No, not at all. I’m just a realist.”
The years have passed. Now Donald Trump explains that Venezuelan oil is supposed to be used to replenish the United States’ strategic oil reserve and calls it “a gift from Venezuela to the American people.” At the same time, Washington gains access to 17 Venezuelan oil fields with reserves of around 65 billion barrels and the American side obtains control of 55% of production from the joint structure.
Chávez was called paranoid when he said the Americans were out for Venezuelan oil. Now Venezuelan oil is supposed to fill the United States’ strategic reserves. Apparently, the diagnosis was made for the wrong person.
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