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This is Trump's plan to steal Venezuela's oil

43 minutes Posted Nov 12, 2025 at 1:13 pm.

US war on Venezuela

(CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil

Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves

US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó

US support for dictatorships in Latin America

Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths

Colonialist Monroe Doctrine

Psychological war

(CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"

US war plans

"Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist

Marco Rubio: war planner

US military buildup in Caribbean

CIA operations in Venezuela

Three options in US war plans

Chevron wants Venezuela's oil

Imperialist "Americas First" policy

War on Terror plus War on Drugs

Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war

US government is an oligarchy

Coup leader: María Corina Machado

Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars

Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil

(CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit

Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

(CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado

US government supports Machado

(CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support

Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets

(CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"

Machado's USA-first foreign policy

(CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran

Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua

(CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua

Machado's Bloomberg interview

(CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources

Privatizations create oligarchies

(CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again

US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann

Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs

Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family

Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch

Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire

María Corina Machado conspires with USA

(CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support

Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate

(CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war

Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars

(CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war

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Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.

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