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Blatant colonialism: Trump says USA will 'run' Venezuela and take its oil

36 minutes Posted Jan 6, 2026 at 4:00 am.

(CLIP) Trump: USA will "run" Venezuela

US coup attempts in Venezuela

Trump bombs Venezuela

Trump boasts of taking Venezuelan oil

Colonial Monroe Doctrine

Trump: "we're going to run the country"

Oil in Venezuela

Trump press conference

(CLIP) Trump's colonial plan

Years of US occupation?

(CLIP) US plan to pillage Venezuela

(CLIP) Boots on the ground

(CLIP) US oil corporations

Critical minerals & rare earth elements

Wall Street vultures

Venezuela's oil belong to Venezuelans

(CLIP) Trump: "They stole our oil"

Trump threatens more attacks

Casualties of US strikes

(CLIP) Trump threatens officials

Trump supports drug trafficker

(CLIP) Pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández

US Special Operations forces & drugs

US imperial plans for Latin America

(CLIP) Asserting US "dominance"

Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine

(CLIP) Trump invokes Monroe Doctrine

China & Cold War Two

Threats against Cuba

(CLIP) Marco Rubio threatens Cuba

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro

(CLIP) Threats against Gustavo Petro

US sanctions Colombian president

War Secretary Pete Hegseth

(CLIP) Hegseth threatens the world

(CLIP) Hegseth: Oil and dominance

(CLIP) "Peace through strength"

General Dan "Razin" Caine

(CLIP) US military threatens the world

Invader invokes "self-defense"

(CLIP) US military claims "self-defense"

Trump's Freudian slip

(CLIP) "Precise attack on sovereignty"

Marco Rubio, warmonger

(CLIP) Do what USA says, or else

Rubio wants to pick foreign leaders

(CLIP) "President of peace"

Trump has bombed 10 countries

US empire intervenes across planet

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After the US military bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said "we're going to run the country", potentially for years. "We're in the oil business", he added, boasting that US corporations will exploit Latin America's natural resources. Ben Norton reports.

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