Politics Venezuela

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[crandc]

Paul Krugman: This isn't a war for oil. It's a war for Trump's fantasy about oil.

 

[RR7]

Paul Krugman: This isn't a war for oil. It's a war for Trump's fantasy about oil.

If it's a war about Trump's fantasies, I'd say we're looking at some underage oil in Venezuela.

 

[crandc]

Tulsi Gabbard wrote in 2019 the US should stay out of Venezuela. It's for Venezuelans to decide their government, not US. She is now on her knees praising Trump invading Venezuela and kidnapping head of state.

 

[DaLong]

Venezuela’s new president steered $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration—in 2017

Oops it’s a pay wall, just load it in a private tab if you want to read it all.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Venezuela’s new president steered $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration—in 2017

Oops it’s a pay wall, just load it in a private tab if you want to read it all.

Then Venezuela’s foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,000 donation to the president’s inauguration. With the socialist administration of Nicolas Maduro struggling to feed Venezuela, Rodríguez gambled on a deal that would have opened the door to American investment. Around the same time, she saw that Trump’s ex-campaign manager was hired as a lobbyist for Citgo, courted Republicans in Congress and tried to secure a meeting with the head of Exxon.

The charm offensive flopped. Within weeks of taking office, Trump, urged by then-Sen. Marco Rubio, made restoring Venezuela’s democracy his driving focus in response to Maduro’s crackdown on opponents. But the outreach did bear fruit for Rodríguez, making her a prominent face in U.S. business and political circles and paving the way for her own rise.

 

[DaLong]

If I donate $5,000 and promise to sell him some real estate can I be president of Aruba?

 

[riverman]

When finally released one of his tax returns back in his first term I noticed most of his stocks were oil, coal and steel companies ...I'd say he has a bit of a conflict of interest stealing oil and giving the refineries to American oil companies. Sort of graphic insider trading.

 

[ehizzy3]

Tulsi Gabbard wrote in 2019 the US should stay out of Venezuela. It's for Venezuelans to decide their government, not US. She is now on her knees praising Trump invading Venezuela and kidnapping head of state.

Tulsi has been awfully quiet lately