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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by cirwyz on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:46PM (#46481352)
The US regime hates Maduro because he kept Venezuelan oil nationalized so it can be benefit the Venezuelan people rather than foreign shareholders of oil companies. Although US sanctions intended to choke their economy and bring about regime change have made that difficult in practice.

The interests of the US imperialists and the Venezuelan people therefore could not be more diametrically opposed.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by arcbyte on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:08PM (#46481563)
Nobody was benefiting from the oil nationalization, least of all the Venezuelan people. All their oil engineers left! You can't walk around Doral, Fl; Katy, Tx; or Alpharetta, Ga without tripping over young venezuelans with petroleum engineering degrees who have fled the poverty and repression of Maduro's Venezuela.
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