I’m not advocating for an invasion don’t get me wrong. Venezuela had the biggest oil earnings of its history during the early Chavez years and all that money w

I’m not advocating for an invasion don’t get me wrong. Venezuela had the biggest oil earnings of its history during the early Chavez years and all that money was pilfered. The oil industry infrastructure, the electric infrastructure is currently in shambles due to lack of investment, maintenance and corruption. Part of the recovery of Venezuela will require external investments just to get production back to the levels we had before this calamity. They also took massive loans in exchange for future oil at insane prices, when people argues that we are going to lose our oil if X or Y happens to me it doesn’t mean anything, because we already lost it with these inept criminals in the government anyway. Edit: even Maduro is now offering our country’s riches to the US in exchange for remaining in power: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-oil.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-ven...