The oil belongs to the people of Venezuela. Not Chavez or Maduro, or oil companies. Our legacy in Latin America is one wealth extraction. We’ve done it elsewhere as have all imperialistic western Powers. See Iran and Mousaddegh.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Tue Jan 06, 2026 7:05 pmSteal? The Venezuelans were producing 3.5 million barrels of oil a day before your socialist heroes Chavez and Maduro took over. Under Maduro that had fallen to 800k barrels of oils a day due to corruption, incompetence, and falling apart infrastructure.
Legal judgements mandate Venezuela owes US oil companies billions due to broken contracts after Chavez took over. They also defaulted on 60 billion in bonds. The US is going to invest billions rebuilding their infrastructure. Damn straight the US taxpayers and US oil companies should be able to recoup that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/venezu ... investment
The oil companies and their shareholders can win in court. This does not warrant military intervention on their behalf. And Venezuela was not a threat to the U.S.





