The latest events in Venezuela seem like something out of an action movie, except this time there is no fiction and all the facts lead to real life, with the director of the film being none other than the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Trump has shown that he is not even a friend to his NATO political allies, as he seeks to territorially expand a military empire whose global economic hegemony has been gradually displaced by the economic power of China.
The kidnapping of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro and taking him to the U.S. has been a violation of International Law, among other reasons, because a sitting head of state has immunity and cannot be judged.
What would happen if Vladimir Putin performed the same operation in Ukraine and kidnapped Zelensky to take him to Moscow, where he would be judged for his fascist stance against Russia?
The scandal would be international and sanctions against Moscow would increase, as they continue to do, to diminish the economic power of an economic and military power like Russia.
Having Venezuela’s reserves of more than 300 billion barrels of oil makes it coveted territory for the interests of the Trump administration and American transnational corporations.
It is known that oil is becoming scarce and the U.S. is running out of fossil fuel, which is why they spend more than a billion dollars daily to buy it and maintain the consumer society that is consuming much more electricity with the development of Artificial Intelligence.
Trump surrounded himself with tycoons when he took office for his second presidency; he is close friends with magnates, dines with magnates, plays golf with magnates, and his presidential team is made up of millionaires, which shows that more than a politician, he is a magnate in the executive branch.
And as a magnate president, he has to answer to the billionaires who gave him money to achieve his long-awaited return to the White House, where he was humiliated when Joe Biden triumphed.
It is clear that the one who betrayed Maduro is within the close circle of the president who valued the 50 million dollars paid for delivering him more than Venezuela’s sovereignty and the life of a politician elected by his people.
It is known that every war is carried out under a political pretext, but its objective is always economic, and this time the White House has demonstrated it with arguments that are not supported by any evidence.
What bothers the White House is not Maduro’s 25 years in power but the good political and commercial relations of Miraflores with Cuba, Nicaragua, Russia, Iran, and, above all, China, which buys Venezuelan oil with yuan and not dollars, fueling China’s intense development as the global economic superpower it already is.
They did not forgive Gaddafi for selling oil to Europe in euros, nor do they forgive Maduro for selling black gold in yuan, because it diminishes the power of the U.S. dollar, the guarantee of Washington’s global economic hegemony since the end of World War II, when the dollar was chosen as the principal currency for world trade.
And for this, the magnate president does not hesitate to violate international laws, to avoid consulting the Congress of his own country to declare war on Venezuela, and to disregard the United Nations because he knows that, from a legal standpoint, he cannot do it.
Nicolás Maduro’s defense is still ongoing, and it is expected that the legal strategy will define the next steps of the judicial process, because these events recall what happened to Lula in Brazil, where he was ultimately released for lack of legal grounds.
