US EditionNot Just Oil: Is Trump’s Venezuela Takeover Also About Critical Minerals?
US military action aims to secure Venezuela's oil and rare earth minerals vital for technology and defense amid rising US-China resource competition.
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'Very odd': Career diplomats say Trump’s Venezuela takeover isn’t really regime change
Donald Trump's supposed takeover of Venezuela has more in common with the mafia than any actual diplomacy, former US ambassador John Feeley told the New York Times, claiming that the administration is not looking to run a country, but rather to "get an envelope."Following the US military attack on Venezuela and the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, Trump claimed that forces within his administration would be in control of the …
Venezuela: What's Behind It?
Drugs have nothing to do with it; what matters in Venezuela are the world's largest oil reserves and a huge potential for critical, unexplored minerals. Luca Longo's analysis The series of American attacks on Venezuela – culminating on December 3 with the kidnapping of a duly elected head of state and his wife in defiance of all international conventions – have been repeatedly justified as necessary to combat Venezuelan drug cartels and prevent …
If Donald Trump put oil as the main justification for his bold military intervention in Venezuela, it is not because he has many hopes in the ability to recover the country’s production with more reserves in the world. The optimistic hypotheses about this step are more anchored in the past of this industry than in the future. The wealth that returns strategic to Venezuela in the long term are the so-called rare minerals, essential for the develo…
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