Afrasianet - Abd El Halim Qandil - No one is sane or insane anymore wondering why Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was overthrown and kidnapped, as US President Donald Trump relieved them of the burden of mixing explanations and images, and announced himself on air and on his personal social platform "Truth Social", that he had ordered the new governor of Caracas, interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who was an appointed non-elected deputy of the kidnapped president, and the minister of petroleum at the same time, and agreed to Trump's request to supply about 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil to refineries The US president will supervise how to distribute its financial returns for the benefit of the United States and the Venezuelan people, as he said. No one needs to wonder about the Venezuelan people's share of the American booty, it is zero or slightly more than zero, and it may often go, as the experiences of American theft of people's wealth have shown, either to the pockets of Venezuelan collaborators, or to the purchase of American weapons from "scrap" stores, while it goes Most of the money goes directly to the U.S. Treasury, or to major U.S. oil companies, under the guise of compensation, and as a down payment to Chevron in particular, which was exempted by the U.S.
Treasury Department from the U.S.-sanctioned ban on the receipt of Venezuelan oil, and may add to the only exception a permit for the American company ExxonMobil, which has a monopoly on Venezuela's neighboring Guyana, while the ban remains in effect on European oil companies, which have interests in Venezuela, the first of which are the Italian companies Eni and Repsol Spain, and the two companies together own the Perla gas field on the Venezuelan coast, and they were supplying Venezuela with the gas needed to generate a third of its electricity needs, and naphtha to reduce the density of heavy oil, and they have $6 billion in debt to Venezuela, which they were charging in the form of free installments from oil shipments, just as China, a creditor to Venezuela with more than $15 billion, was doing About international law, or even American law, nor any allegation about the involvement of Maduro and his abducted wife in the drug trade, "cocaine" and "fentanyl", nor the pretext of arresting and prosecuting Maduro as a fugitive from justice, and Trump himself despises what he calls American justice, and he has pardoned himself for criminal convictions issued against him by American courts, and suspended his trials when he became president for the second time, and while the US administration talks about Maduro as an illegitimate president, he came to claim that the election was rigged.
Trump himself described the 2020 US election as fraudulent, and his predecessor Biden did not prosecute the illegitimate president in his opinion, God forbid except with insults and market insults, while Biden receives a pension from taxpayers' money worth $413,000 a year, which is more than the current president's salary estimated at about $400,000 a year, and scoops up billions for himself and his family from his foreign contacts and acquaintances as president, and looks like the leader of the Al Capone mafia gang, as he appeared in his televised interviews after the kidnapping Maduro, and repeating claims about caring for the safety of Americans and American national security, while no one is arrested by American drug traffickers, as if "cocaine" reaches the noses of American "cantaloupe" without a local intermediary working in drug gangs described as terrorists, while the accusation of drugs is used to justify piracy and seize the capabilities of others.
Trump's allegations may not be entirely new to the history of American politics, as they kidnapped and tried Panamanian President Noriega 36 years ago, and even Maduro's accusation of drug trafficking preceded Trump's current second presidency. Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration preceded the hunt for the kidnapped Venezuelan president, and admitted that she placed a $25 million bounty on Maduro's head, even if she claimed to oppose Trump's barbaric invasion that despises the rules of international law, and Maduro's kidnapping would not have been done as it was, but the lure of the American reward played its role, especially after the current administration increased it to fifty million dollars, Trump claims that he did not spend a single cent of it, and that The kidnapping is one of the achievements and legends of the highly trained American "Delta Force", which was met with little Venezuelan resistance, and there is no explanation for the absence of Maduro guarding his fortified bedroom door, except that senior generals betrayed him in his safety, and no one knows exactly who betrayed him. The work of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) "C. I.
It has been going on for twenty years, and not only as announced since August 2025, through which thousands of spies were recruited in the environment of a besieged and impoverished society that is economically and socially suffocated, despite Venezuela's wealth in the world in oil reserves (303 billion barrels), in addition to the riches of gold and rare metals, and the declared spies, the first of whom was Maria Corina Machado, who was given the "Nobel Prize", and called Trump by phone in October 2025, and announced her support for an American invasion in Venezuela, which would overthrow her Trump decided to "run Venezuela" himself after the kidnapping of its president, and they asked him about Machado's role, and his answer was that she is neither respected nor popular in Venezuela, and preferred to rely on the heads of the Maduro regime itself, and on Mrs. Rodriguez, the Minister of Defense, Vladimir López, and others, all prominent leaders in Maduro's party, and with the aim of conducting American looting smoothly, and with the least American military costs, the American president understands that occupying Venezuela will not be an easy task The consequences are not guaranteed, and the mobilization of a real Venezuelan resistance will drop the masks on Maduro's big traitors, in addition to the costs of American blood, which Trump does not want to pay and the American interior turns against him.
It is the declared theft, then, and with the least possible risk, the US president seeks to avoid more of it, as he knows for sure that every direct announced American invasion has no fate other than a shameful exit, and in the manner of all America's foreign wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan, and the myths of the "Delta Force" will not benefit him at that time In the famous "Mogadishu" operation, 18 American soldiers from the Delta and the US Marines were killed, and the US special forces were forced to flee in panic after the failure of the mission to kidnap Mohamed Farah Aideed, the leader of the "Somali National Alliance" at the time.
Declared by Trump and his gang, which seeks to liquidate the movements and regimes of the "Latin Left", a left characterized by the nature of blending national liberation and social liberation, while Trump and his companions think that American power is capable of achieving the "Monroe Principle" of 1823, which Trump today attributes to himself, and modifies its name to "Donroe's Principle", and believes that it can make the distant Western Hemisphere a private monopoly of Washington, and away from the heart of the world that is enraged by American barbarism, and forgets or does not know its own history For the movements of the Latin Left, which is based on the legacy of the Latin leader Simón Bolívar, who was born in Caracas, and spent his short life (47 years) in the struggle against the colonization of the Spanish Empire, and as Trump invokes the Monroe Doctrine, and goes back to two centuries ago, the peoples of Latin America can return to the meaning of what was, and to the wills of Bolívar, who died in 1830, especially since the Latin peoples suffered from dozens of coups orchestrated by Washington, and I have already written an article here published on December 6 2025, about a month before Maduro's kidnapping and ouster on January 3, 2026, was titled "Trump's Venezuelan Invasion", and at the end of it I said that "the coup against Maduro, even if it succeeds, may not mean a stable and lasting American victory, especially with the Latin American peoples' awareness of the juggernautical nature of the American role and its manufactured coups, which have exterminated tens of millions of its people, stole their rich wealth and natural resources, and are still working in your eyes."
