Recent events in Venezuela seem like something out of an action movie. Only this time there’s no fiction and all the events are leading to real life. With the director of the film is none other than US President Donald Trump.
Trump has proven himself to be no friend even to his NATO political allies. As he seeks to territorially expand a military empire. Whose global economic hegemony has been slowly displaced by China’s economic power.
Moreover the kidnapping of the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, and his abduction of him to the US has been a violation of international law. Among other reasons, because a sitting head of state has immunity and cannot be tried.
What would happen if Vladimir Putin carried out the same operation in Ukraine and kidnapped Zelinki to take him to Moscow? Where he would try him for his fascist stance against Russia? The scandal would be international, and sanctions against Moscow would increase. As they continue to do, to diminish the economic power of an economic and military powerhouse like Russia.
With Venezuela possessing reserves of over 300 billion barrels of oil. It becomes a coveted territory for the interests of the Trump administration and US transnational corporations.
It is known that oil is becoming scarce, and the US is running out of this fossil fuel. Which is why they spend over a billion dollars a day to buy it and maintain a consumer society. That is consuming much more electricity with the development of Artificial Intelligence.
Trump surrounded himself with magnates when he assumed his second presidency. He is close friends with magnates, dines with them, plays golf with them. And his presidential team is made up of millionaires. It demonstrates that more than a politician, he is a magnate in the executive branch.
As a magnate president, he has to answer to the billionaires who gave him money to achieve his longed-for return to the White House. Where he was humiliated when Joe Biden won.
It is clear that whoever betrayed Maduro is within the president’s inner circle. Valuing the $50 million offered for his surrender more than Venezuela’s sovereignty and the life of a politician elected by his people. Also it is known that every war is waged under a political pretext. But its objective is always economic, and this time the White House. So it has demonstrated this with arguments that are not supported by any evidence.
What bothers the White House is not Maduro’s 25 years in power. But rather the good political and commercial relations between Miraflores and Cuba, Nicaragua, Russia, Iran, and, above all, China. Whose nation buys Venezuelan oil with yuan, not dollars. In which fueled China’s rapid development as the global economic superpower it already is.
Gaddafi was never forgiven for selling oil to Europe in euros. Maduro is not being forgiven for selling oil in yuan either. Because it diminishes the power of the US dollar. The guarantee of Washington’s global economic hegemony since the end of World War II. When the dollar was chosen as the principal currency for world trade.
And to this end, the magnate president does not hesitate to violate international law. To not consult his own country’s Congress before declaring war on Venezuela. And to ignore the United Nations because he knows that, from a legal standpoint, he cannot do so.
Nicolás Maduro’s defense is still developing. It is expected that the legal strategy will define the next steps in the judicial process. Because these events are reminiscent of what happened to Lula in Brazil. Where he was ultimately released due to a lack of legal basis.
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