In recent statements at a political meeting in North Carolina in the U.S., former President Donald Trump made a very important reference to Venezuela, which is of mandatory analysis for anyone who follows what is happening in our country. The note reaches me through La Patilla, but it only indicates the bulk of what Trump said in the headline: "Venezuela was about to collapse, we would have taken it over" (see in Spanish Trump: Venezuela was about to collapse, we would have taken it over", in https://gitx.awsccs2.com/2023/06/10/trump-venezuela-video/). Viewed superficially, these statements may lead many people to draw the wrong conclusions.
The full translation of the 26-second video is as follows: “How about with buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over. We would have gotten all that oil. It would have been right next to her. But now we're buying oil from Venezuela. So we're making a dictator very rich. Can you believe this? Nobody can believe it. You know where the oil is garbage. It's horrible. The worst you can get, tar. It's like tar. And to refine it, you need special plants...” (see NewsMax's video: Trump speaks in North Carolina, in https://gitx.awsccs2.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/trump.mp4) (emphasis added).
Any communist, socialist or nail-bug of the Latin American left, upon hearing such a statement, would do what any lefty -as they call them in Argentina- would do when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him: he would run out and protest loudly in front of the U.S. embassy.
Read out of the context of what we have gone through - and are going through - in Venezuela, that statement could be considered imperialist, as indeed those who were in charge of the caretaker government of Juan Guaidó believed, when as President of the United States the only thing Donald Trump expected was the green light from that interim and its National Assembly of 2015 to put an end to the cancer of those who have destroyed the country. But no, they did not do it, because they have that tare of the "imperialismo mesmo" of the Galactic Commander stuck in their brains.
In April 2019, at the height of his popularity, Juan Guaidó and the 2015 National Assembly rejected the possibility of a military intervention in Venezuela (see in Spanish Military intervention is ruled out in Venezuela, in https://www.clarin.com/mundo/juan-guaido-intervencion-militar-descartada-venezuela_0_ldSsWxwpG.html). Now discredited and in exile precisely in the country that gave him all that support to do what he did not do, after so many dead and tortured since that date, I would like to know if he thinks the same.
It was of no use that the first world support to that Interim Government, held with pins, was precisely that of the United States, and through that country, that of the rest of the more than 60 countries of the International Community. This "socialism", which is in the bones of most Venezuelan "opponents", and especially that of the young politicians of the new generation of the carbide-aged generation, is the fundamental reason why Maduro is still in Miraflores.
What do the phrases “We would have taken it over. We would have gotten all that oil”? That in the framework of the geopolitics of today's world, Venezuelan oil would have been recovered for the Western world, not only for the United States, but especially for Venezuela, and not for Cuba or China, remaining under the custody of whoever has enough strength to sustain it in the long term.
And that is precisely what is meant by the following phrase: It would have been right next to her and which I emphasize here in a special way because that is precisely what the interim government was there for, from the North American point of view of the geopolitics of power: to receive the government from their hands when the situation arose, as happened in Panama with the fall of the last narco-criminal who governed a Latin American country, Manuel Antonio Noriega in December 1989.
What did the clumsiness of the interim government and its puppeteers of the 2015 National Assembly achieve? Screw the regime, turning it into an oil negotiator before the current U.S. government, and richer at the expense of the oil of all Venezuelans. Venezuelans have paid dearly for the clumsiness of this incompetent pseudo "opposition" leadership that still insists on representing us illegitimately.
But Trump goes further. He knows our oil is different and can be considered junk if you're not prepared to process it. "It's like tar. And to refine it, you need special plants" he said. That is why the oil industry we once had was extensively concerned about that problem, as well expressed by Dr. Humberto Calderon Berti, former Minister of Energy and Mines, former president of PDVSA and former president of OPEC:
"...and then that brought about the consequence that the internationalization policy, as we call it, could also be carried out in the United States, and there we began to buy refineries, shipping terminals, distribution networks, ports, etc., and there came a time when we had 8 refineries in the United States. Of those 8 refineries, the only one we have left is CITGO at the moment. This was so interesting that we came to have in the USA, 15. We did not own them, they were not owned by Venezuela, but they had the CITGO flag, and the crude coming out of Venezuela, from the oil fields in the East and the West, went to our refineries in the US, and was refined in our refineries in the US, it was refined in the US refineries, which were 8 refineries in the whole territory, in Lousiana, in Texas, in Paulsboro, New Jersey, in Illinois, Lemont, in the center of the US, and those refineries made it possible for Venezuelan heavy crude to reach the gasoline tanks of American cars'. And we came to have 10% of the gasoline market in the United States...". (see in Spanish Calderón Berti: La izquierda se opuso a la internacionalización petrolera en Venezuela, in https://youtu.be/LSSbvgD0tgQ?t=75).
It is very difficult and paradoxical to imagine that the Venezuela of those achievements described by Dr. Calderón Berti is the same country that is suffering today's endless queues for gasoline throughout Venezuela, with all the refineries destroyed inside the country, and fighting like cats on our backs abroad so that they do not take away the only one we have left in the USA, because a delinquent regime put it in guarantee to international conglomerates, selling the remaining 7, keeping the money for themselves. What Venezuelan now in one of those gasoline lines would not have given Trump the authorization to enter Venezuela and get rid of that stench? Exactly, you read my mind: none. That is the most concrete proof of the betrayal they have done to us.
But God is great and we Venezuelans have always been accompanied by the saints invoked by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba's Florentino, beating the Devil himself in his encounter. That is why perhaps there is still some hope for us, and the opportunity of a moment considered unique and unrepeatable, such as the one mentioned by Donald Trump in North Carolina, may present itself once again.
Maybe God will give us another chance with this character, who is leading in the polls to occupy the US presidency for the second time, in spite of the immense forces unleashed against him by American and international progressivism. I hope that by that time we will have a decent opposition that the Venezuelan people deserve, and that will bring us a completely different result...
Caracas, June 12, 2023
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