{"id":394806,"date":"2019-02-01T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuelas-oil-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-us-backed-coup\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:52:14","slug":"venezuelas-oil-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-us-backed-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuelas-oil-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-us-backed-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s oil and the geopolitics of the US-backed coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Venezuela\u2019s oil and the geopolitics of the US-backed coup<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Gabriel Black<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p>The United States has steadily escalated its regime change operation in Venezuela, seeking to remove Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by means of a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat driven by crippling economic sanctions tantamount to a state of war and the continuous threat of outright US military intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to install the US puppet, Juan Guaid\u00f3, who in December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/28\/vene-j28.html\">traveled<\/a> to the United States to discuss the operation with the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Guaid\u00f3, an operative of Voluntad Popular, a right-wing party funded by the USAID and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has bipartisan support from Democrats and the Republicans. He been presented in the media as a kind of freedom fighter and champion of democracy against Maduro, a dictator and force of evil. As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in a speech last Saturday, warning other governments at the United Nations, \u201cEither you stand with the forces of freedom, or you\u2019re in league with Maduro and his mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beneath Washington\u2019s tired and hypocritical invocation of \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cdemocracy\u201d lies the real motives for a coup that could quickly spiral into civil war and armed intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world\u2014several billion barrels more than Saudi Arabia. This valuable prize is not simply a source of profit, but a critical geopolitical piece in the growing conflict between the US and China\u2014especially in light of growing fears that the oil markets could soon tighten.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Trump Administration tried to stop the flow of oil revenues to the Maduro government by halting all US payments to the state-owned oil company, Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/31\/vene-j31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Venezuela\u2019s oil and the geopolitics of the US-backed coup By Gabriel Black 31 January 2019 The United States has steadily escalated its regime change operation in Venezuela, seeking to remove Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by means of a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat driven by crippling economic sanctions tantamount to a state of war and the continuous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}