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To: Les H who wrote (48255)	10/14/2025 9:46:56 AM
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War in Venezuela Could Be Another Vietnam, Warns Mexican Analyst Fernando Buen Abad Posted on October 14, 2025 by Nick Corbishley The Trump administration seems increasingly poised to climb a few more rungs of the escalatory ladder in its latest face-off with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro government, perhaps even to the point of war. With the US keen to reassert its strategic dominance of its so-called “backyard” and Cuban American neo-con Marco Rubio occupying the dual roles of secretary of state and national security advisor, anything is possible. The decision last Friday of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award its long-sullied Peace Prize to the Venezuelan far-right coup plotter Maria Corina Machado was merely the latest statement of intent. Following her nomination by Rubio and Mike Waltz, Machado’s unexpected victory has helped revive Venezuela’s “downcast” opposition movement, as BBC Mundo helpfully explains (translated by yours truly): When the opposition to the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela seemed once again downcast and without the possibility of provoking change, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to its leader, María Corina Machado, revives hopes. The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday chose Machado “for her tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” Machado has tried everything in her fight against the government first of Hugo Chávez and now of Maduro. She has participated in elections and called for abstention, has sat at negotiating tables that have failed and has made calls to take to the streets. What the BBC fails to mention is that Machado has worked tirelessly on behalf of US interests in Venezuela since the failed US-sponsored coup of 2002. That attempted coup came just two years after Chávez passed energy reforms that sought to ensure that more of the revenues generated by the oil sector stayed in Venezuela. Also in 2002, Machado set up her NGO Sumate with funds from the US’ National Endowment for Democracy, a notorious CIA cut-out. Also not mentioned: Machado has repeatedly asked the US and other countries, including Israel and Argentina, to invade her home country of Venezuela and remove the Chavista government. Like Argentina’s Javier Milei, her political rise has been facilitated by organisations belonging to the Koch-financed Atlas Network. Like Milei, Machado, if given the keys to power, would privatise Venezuela’s oil industry and open the door to US military bases. Indeed, Milei just authorised by decree the entry into the country of members of the US Armed Forces to participate in a joint military exercise without consulting Congress, in direct violation of the Argentine Constitution more... nakedcapitalism.com Koch Industries also has an interest in securing Venezuela's heavy oil since the canceled Keystone XL pipeline was supposed to bring heavy oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to their refineries.