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I'm using the term neo-colonialism based on the definition.
The US has stated that they intend to steal oil assets from Venezuela by force. The US references the 1976 decision by the Venezuelan government to assume control and ownership of their assets. The US wants to reset the relationship to pre-1976, and seize control of Venezuelan land, assets, and oil.
"neocolonialism, the control of less-developed countries by developed countries through indirect means. The term neocolonialism was first used after World War II to refer to the continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries, but its meaning soon broadened to apply, more generally, to places where the power of developed countries was used to produce a colonial-like exploitation—for instance, in Latin America, where direct foreign rule had ended in the early 19th century.
The term is now an unambiguously negative one that is widely used to refer to a form of global power in which transnational corporations and global and multilateral institutions combine to perpetuate colonial forms of exploitation of developing countries."
This article explains the reasons that the US is attempting to seize control of Venezuela.
"In 1976, the government of oil-rich Venezuela assumed control of the country’s petroleum industry, nationalizing hundreds of private businesses and foreign-owned assets, including projects operated by the American giant ExxonMobil.
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President Donald Trump said this week that the expropriation of American oil company assets justified a “total and complete blockade” of oil tankers arriving and leaving Venezuela in defiance of U.S. sanctions. The blockade will remain, he wrote on Truth Social, until the South American nation returns “to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”
Glad he’s arrested. Hopefully now drugs won’t be flooding into the US and other countries.
MOO, JMO
