{"id":17593,"date":"2026-01-15T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=17593"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:44:05","slug":"venezuelas-oil-under-siege-how-trum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/01\/15\/venezuelas-oil-under-siege-how-trum\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Oil under Siege, How Trump, U.S. Corporations, and Power Politics Engineered a Global Resource Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuela\u2019s Oil under Siege, How Trump, U.S. Corporations, and Power Politics Engineered a Global Resource Grab<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The recent aggressive measures taken by the United States against Venezuela, along with the Trump administration\u2019s open closeness to the owners of major oil companies, are not the result of coincidence. Rather, they represent a carefully planned political and economic strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the entire situation is examined closely, a clear sequence emerges: first, the unrestrained use of political power; second, the securing of legal and institutional guarantees; and finally, the calculation of profits on corporate balance sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. administration<\/a>\u2019s assurance of \u201ccomplete protection\u201d to private companies willing to invest billions of dollars in Venezuela\u2019s oil sector makes it evident that this entire process has been designed not to serve the public interest, but to safeguard the interests of specific corporate actors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the dramatic narrative surrounding the arrest of Venezuela\u2019s president was not part of any policy aimed at lowering fuel prices for the American public or restoring Venezuela\u2019s sovereignty. Instead, it reflects an old pattern of global power politics, in which state power is deployed to secure another country\u2019s natural resources for private control.<\/span><\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s extraordinary importance lies primarily in its natural wealth. The country possesses more than 300 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves\u2014widely regarded as the largest untapped energy treasure in the world. Within financial and energy circles, it is well understood that such reserves remain meaningless to capital investors unless political risks are completely eliminated. This is precisely the stage at which U.S. power has historically stepped in to play its role.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also important to recognize that Donald Trump\u2019s pursuit of oil for private profit is not a sudden or unprecedented development. The current confrontation between the United States and Venezuela is often compared to Washington\u2019s campaign during the era of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Such \u201cstruggles\u201d have always been rooted in the seizure of oil resources, and each time, the same familiar corporate faces reappear on the global stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

During Trump\u2019s first term in office, Venezuela\u2019s so-called alternative leadership\u2014fully backed by Washington\u2014made its intentions clear. The U.S.-supported opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 never concealed his plan to hand over Venezuela\u2019s oil sector to private American companies. According to his representatives, any government formed under Guaid\u00f3\u2019s leadership would have granted foreign private companies a significantly larger stake in joint ventures with Venezuela\u2019s state-owned oil company, PDVSA.<\/span><\/p>\n

This unfolding narrative exposes how global power, corporate interests, and geopolitics intertwine\u2014revealing that behind the language of democracy and stability lies a calculated effort to control one of the world\u2019s most valuable energy reserves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venezuela\u2019s Oil under Siege, How Trump, U.S. Corporations, and Power Politics Engineered a Global Resource Grab The recent aggressive measures taken by the United States against Venezuela, along with the Trump administration\u2019s open closeness to the owners of major oil companies, are not the result of coincidence. Rather, they represent a carefully planned political and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2805,2297,2299],"tags":[3710],"class_list":["post-17593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-venezuelas-oil-us-trump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17595,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions\/17595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}