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2020 Sep 4, 11:54am   9,244 views  361 comments

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Venezuela’s oil industry—rich in reserves, a crucial Allied resource in World War II, a founding member of OPEC—is grinding toward a halt.

Venezuela has greater oil stores than any other country. But after years of corruption, mismanagement and more recently U.S. sanctions, its oil output has dropped to a tenth of what it was two decades ago.

From Lake Maracaibo in the west to the Orinoco oil belt in the east, abandoned wells rust in the sun as looters scavenge the metal. The last drilling rig still working in Venezuela shut down in August. The country is on course, by the end of this year, to be pumping little more oil than the state of Wyoming.

“Twenty percent of the world’s oil is in Venezuela, but what good is it if we can’t monetize it?” said Carlos Mendoza, an ambassador under the late socialist president Hugo Chávez, who enjoyed an oil bonanza when prices were high but starved the industry of investment and maintenance funds.

“We’re entering a post-oil era,” Mr. Mendoza said.

While petroleum is under stress world-wide from climate-change concerns and the rise of wind and solar power, what is happening to oil in Venezuela goes far beyond the global industry’s troubles. It is an existential crisis for a country long dependent on oil for nearly all of its hard-currency earnings.

This year, Venezuela’s oil income will probably fall below the limited funds coming in from other sources such as gold mining and overseas workers’ remittances, said Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster. Venezuela’s economy is likely to shrink more than 30% this year from the oil collapse plus the pandemic, says Ecoanalitica, a Caracas business consulting firm.

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210   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 3, 8:39pm  

That's great.


"Have no fear, the EU is monitoring the situation!" - some Brussels person

I love when Trump does shit. Everybody from Eurocrats to Doomtriots get upset.




211   Patrick   2026 Jan 3, 8:42pm  

Grok:


When Chávez died of cancer in March 2013, Maduro was named his successor and won a snap presidential election in April 2013 by a narrow margin.

He was re-elected in 2018 and 2024, though both elections were widely disputed as fraudulent by opposition groups and
international observers.

Maduro remained in power until his capture by U.S. forces on January 3, 2026, following a military operation.

Regarding involvement in drug trafficking, Maduro has faced serious allegations but denies them. In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Maduro and 14 other Venezuelan officials on charges of narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption.

The U.S. accused him of leading the "Cartel of the Suns," a drug-trafficking organization involving high-ranking Venezuelan officials, and conspiring with the FARC guerrilla group to flood the U.S. with cocaine, allegedly shipping hundreds of tons since the 1990s.

A $15 million bounty was placed on Maduro in 2020, increased to $50 million in 2025.


Ah, Trump has been after Maduro since at least 2020.
212   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 3, 8:53pm  

Nicolás Maduro was officially indicted by the United States on March 26, 2020. The U.S. Department of Justice announced and unsealed charges against Maduro and 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on that date, accusing him of narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption in partnership with the FARC. A four-count superseding indictment in the Southern District of New York detailed these allegations, including conspiring to flood the U.S. with cocaine. This is confirmed by the official DOJ press release and multiple reports referencing the March 26, 2020, announcement. Recent events (as of January 2026) refer to this 2020 indictment as the basis for charges following Maduro's reported capture, with some sources mentioning a possible new or superseding indictment involving his wife, Cilia Flores (who was not named in the original). However, the primary and longstanding official indictment of Maduro himself dates to March 26, 2020.
- Grok

BTW, interest loans and porn is 100% legal in Venezuela, don't know where Tuqar got that shit from.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/wquD0GzPR75unTJ5C2wEr0Y8J
https://x.com/i/grok/share/0FiIZVo063vT7TKQiFWBggwSZ
Homosexual activity, porn, and propaganda are also legal in VZ
213   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 3, 9:11pm  

Tears of the "Progressives"

214   AD   2026 Jan 3, 9:21pm  

What did the Biden regime do about Maduro ? Maybe an occasional photo-op drug bust.


215   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 3, 9:33pm  

Milei weighs in

216   Ceffer   2026 Jan 3, 9:45pm  

Methinks they are over-theatrisizing the perp walk scenario. Maybe Maduro can also do a little tap dance with the thumbs up. That is, if it's even Maduro and not central casting.



217   AD   2026 Jan 3, 9:48pm  



218   Ceffer   2026 Jan 3, 9:50pm  

That's all we need is CCP Soros. How about liberating the West Coast, Great Orange One? The Monroe Doctrine doesn't apply to home turf?

219   Ceffer   2026 Jan 3, 10:05pm  

I'll know they channeled Mel Brooks when the DEA officers start doing the can can.

220   MolotovCocktail   2026 Jan 3, 11:44pm  

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Without declaration he can’t invade.


Really? Iraq? Vietnam? Grenada? Etc. Etc.
222   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 4, 12:02am  

"The gringos want all our oil!"

224   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 4, 12:04am  

Groypers/lolberts/monarchcucks:
"Trumps not stopping the comies"
Trump:
"Order up one destroyed commie state, with a side of vaporized commie bones"

Retards' rouges gallery:
"REEE NOT OUR HECKN WHOLSOME COMMIE LEADERS"
225   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 4, 12:16am  

Where are the Multipolar BRICS nations military coming to defend the People's Republic of Venezuela against the Yanqui Imperialist International Law Violating Adventurist Running Dog Capitalist etc. etc.

The Panda and the Bear flounced back and the EU White Bull is only watching and taking notes from the other side of the pond.

(The EU doesn't have a totem animal but I figure Zeus dragging off Europa in the form of a White Bull would be fitting)
226   MolotovCocktail   2026 Jan 4, 12:23am  

TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

Where are the Multipolar BRICS nations military coming to defend the People's Republic of Venezuela against the Yanqui Imperialist International Law Violating Adventurist Running Dog Capitalist etc. etc.

The Panda and the Bear flounced back and the EU White Bull is only watching and taking notes from the other side of the pond.

(The EU doesn't have a totem animal but I figure Zeus dragging off Europa in the form of a White Bull would be fitting)


Actual video of the Chinese delegation caught in the crossfire when we grabbed Maduro last night.

228   AD   2026 Jan 4, 1:12am  

It can't be only about oil, or that oil is the main priority as far as Venezuela.


233   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 4, 2:30am  

BTW, China just lent Maduro $60B.

Hope it's in an account in Shanghai. Otherwise, thanks for the cash, Xi!
237   Booger   2026 Jan 4, 10:47am  

I haven’t seen Democrats this upset since they lost the Civil War.
239   Booger   2026 Jan 4, 10:54am  

https://x.com/GalacticJack/status/2007669058163093845?s=20

BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
Every one of these Senators is guilty of providing aid and comfort to THE ENEMY during a time of war and has the blood of their fellow American citizens.
(HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of whom die of drug overdoses every year at the hands of these criminal drug trafficking organizations that bring deadly drugs into our country) on their hands.
May each and every one of them be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may their names forever live in shame for their treason.
Below is EVERY U.S. SENATOR ON THE VENEZUELA LIST:
Lisa Murkowski - R - Alaska
Mark Kelly - D - Arizona
Ruben Gallego - D - Arizona
Alex Padilla - D - California
Adam Schiff - D - California
Michael Bennet - D - Colorado
John Hickenlooper - D - Colorado
Richard Blumenthal - D - Connecticut
Chris Murphy - D - Connecticut
Chris Coons - D - Delaware
Jon Ossoff - D - Georgia
Raphael Warnock - D - Georgia
Brian Schatz - D - Hawaii
Mazie Hirono - D - Hawaii
Dick Durbin - D - Illinois
Tammy Duckworth - D - Illinois
Chuck Grassley - R - Iowa
Joni Ernst - R - Iowa
Mitch McConnell - R - Kentucky
Rand Paul - R - Kentucky
Bill Cassidy - R - Louisiana
Susan Collins - R - Maine
Angus King - I - Maine
Chris Van Hollen - D - Maryland
Angela Alsobrooks - D - Maryland
Elizabeth Warren - D - Massachusetts
Ed Markey - D - Massachusetts
Gary Peters - D - Michigan
Elissa Slotkin - D - Michigan
Amy Klobuchar - D - Minnesota
Tina Smith - D - Minnesota
Roger Wicker - R - Mississippi
Deb Fischer - R - Nebraska
Jacky Rosen - D - Nevada
Catherine Cortez Masto - D - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - D - New Hampshire
Maggie Hassan - D - New Hampshire
Cory Booker - D - New Jersey
Andy Kim - D - New Jersey
Martin Heinrich - D - New Mexico
Ben Ray Lujan - D - New Mexico
Chuck Schumer - D - New York
Kirsten Gillibrand - D - New York
Thom Tillis - R - North Carolina
James Lankford - R - Oklahoma
Ron Wyden - D - Oregon
Jeff Merkley - D - Oregon
Dave McCormick - R - Pennsylvania
Jack Reed - D - Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse - D - Rhode Island
John Thune - R - South Dakota
John Cornyn - R - Texas
Bernie Sanders - I - Vermont
Peter Welch - D - Vermont
Mark Warner - D - Virginia
Tim Kaine - D - Virginia
Patty Murray - D - Washington
Maria Cantwell - D - Washington
Jim Justice - R - West Virginia
Tammy Baldwin - D - Wisconsin
240   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:02am  

Cuba and CCP, of course. We can expect something similar from Ukraine and their stored up blackmail as soon as they are ultimately rat cornered and the blackmail extortion is all they have.

If we had been practicing the Monroe Doctrine all along, the CCP wouldn't be occupying the West Coast, Colorado and Canada through election fraud, in a pincer with the NWO and Euro banksters/Fourth Reich.
Booger says


BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
241   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:09am  

Customary grotesque hypocrisy, throwing his election fraud useful idiots under the bus. Is he hoping to offer his baleful services to save his own neck? It's the KommieKunt way. If you are of no use, you are disposed of. Inverting the inversions. Is it still Satanic, or does it become a sin against Lucifer?

In addition to the civil war in Washington with the Senior Executive Service, the agencies have their own civil wars, including domestic CIA vs. CIA Fourth Reich International.

242   rocketjoe79   2026 Jan 4, 11:15am  

AD says

It can't be only about oil, or that oil is the main priority as far as Venezuela.




Much of the Oil Production will go to the USA, as it did before Chavez and Maduro. Profits from sales will go to Venezuelans, not transferred to Cuba, Iran, or China, supporting America's Enemies. In a year, their economy will be recovering strongly, repatriation will be in full swing, and drug trafficking will be a trickle instead of a flood.

I'd suggest the government should train and re-arm local militia forces across the country, add a 2A type amendment to their constitution to legalize gun ownership, giving locals a fighting chance against Narco trafficers and future communist takeovers. In other words, Americanize Venezuela. They have suffered greatly in the last 25 years, and could do much worse than adopt American principles of governance.
243   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:23am  

And the memes roll on.

245   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:30am  

Just substitute 'publicity optics' for 'trial', and it'll be a little closer to the mark. From here on out, it's all bullshit theater with cardboard sets. The real Maduro is in a black box hole that we will never penetrate.

246   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:36am  

Sure, China, anything you say.

247   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:44am  

All roads lead to the 2020 election fraud. I imagine a lot of go bags were updated in USA when Maduro was captured.

248   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 11:47am  

It was def Trump's "use it or lose it" moment.

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