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"Hostile Takeovers": As U.S. Claims Venezuela's Oil, Trump Seeks "Vassal States" Across the World

2026-01-30 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It's a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguéz that historian Greg Grandin calls "governing under the blade." In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past several decades of U.S. power, "what the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state," he says. "This is an arrangement with transactional details that we've never seen before." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@joelharris4399 2026-01-30

Policy reversal (from nationalization to privatization): sure sign of a US puppet

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@chuckward8750 2026-01-30

Anyone watching this video should read Naomi Klein’s book; The Shock Doctrine. It will explain what the United States is doing right now in Latin America. The people that were killed in those fishing boats were just an excuse to invade another country and steal their oil. The people of Venezuela will get only more hardship .

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@cinquebleuu9408 2026-01-31

Point of historical reference: America government had 308 treadies with indigenous nations and broke or renege on everyone.

37 8 replies
@hannahahlepoetry 2026-01-30

Why did they have to capture maduro and his wife if this is envisioned by them

28 11 replies
@BIGBROTHERSADVICE 2026-01-30

Why is everyone acting surprised? Pigs oink! Ducks quack! And Neanderthals will forever be Neanderthals!

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@IAmEdx37 2026-01-30

What is going on with Marco Rubio's ears? The US has been stealing oil from the Iraqi and Syrian people.

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@Lalita62-03 2026-01-30

Total mafioso administration! All of them look like the “ bad guys” of the movie! This is the type of people that needs to be kicked out of power, better in jail. They’re dangerous for society.

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@josephtempongko8914 2026-01-31

She just sold her country to US. She’s TRAITOR.

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@robertasirgutz8800 2026-01-30

Sounds eerily like the Iraqi "Oil for Food" scandal, involving the UN.

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@MaudaD-q4c 2026-02-02

Thank you Democracy Now, always quality reporting.

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