US plans to ‘run’ Venezuela and take its oil
Following a bold military intervention that removed President Nicolás Maduro from office and transported him out of Venezuela on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would assume temporary control of the nation and utilize its substantial petroleum resources for international trade.
This decisive move represented the culmination of sustained pressure from the Trump administration against the South American nation and its authoritarian government, following months of covert preparations that constituted the most aggressive U.S. effort at forcing governmental change since the Iraq invasion two decades earlier.
