After Maduro: the US, Venezuela's oil, and the price of 'regime change'
The US captured Nicolás Maduro in a January raid, tightened a maritime blockade on Venezuelan oil, then lifted sanctions and handed production licences to private firms. Was it liberation — or an oil-driven intervention?
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Supporters say the operation ended a narco-dictatorship indicted for drug and arms trafficking, restored order, and freed Venezuela's vast oil for legitimate trade under new licences.
Critics call it an illegal, oil-driven regime change with serious legal and human-rights concerns — a foreign power seizing a country's leader and rewriting who controls its oil.
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