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Even if Washington (or Miami media) prefers a face, the governing reality right now is contested because Delcy Rodríguez has been seated domestically by regime-held institutions, and there are reports of crackdown behavior (e.g., detentions of journalists). Reuters +2 The Guardian +2

What this administration is doing is internally consistent with how it thinks about power, legitimacy, and time—and it is not a continuation of the Bush-Obama era nation-building model that the media keeps dragging out of storage every time the United States acts abroad.

There’s a long-running public record that the U.S. has pursued criminal cases against Maduro and senior Venezuelan figures. The DOJ announced in March 2020 that Maduro and others were charged, describing narco-terrorism / drug trafficking-related allegations (and related conduct). Department of Justice

Venezuela’s oil crisis is not the result of a single policy failure or sanctions alone. It is the outcome of geology, economics, and governance colliding. Venezuela possesses enormous oil resources, but they are overwhelmingly extra-heavy, capital-intensive, and unforgiving of mismanagement. When the country nationalized its oil sector and expelled international oil companies (IOCs), it removed the only actors capable of operating such assets sustainably.

Venezuela’s oil is vast in volume but poor in quality, ruinously expensive to rehabilitate, and politically radioactive to invest in. The idea that the United States—or any rational actor—would pursue regime change purely for this oil ignores geology, engineering, finance, and history.

González y la líder opositora Maria Corina Machado presentaron pruebas que sugieren que González obtuvo más del doble de votos comparado con