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After the U.S. military detained then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a three-part plan for Venezuela: stabilization, recovery, and transition to democracy. But what the U.S. is doing to Venezuela counts as nothing but colonization.<\/p>\n

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An astonishing report by The New York Times, based on interviews with more than a dozen officials and people close to governments in Washington and Caracas, details the imperial overhaul of Venezuela\u2019s government and economy after Trump\u2019s ouster of Maduro. The U.S. isn\u2019t just setting up an economically advantageous policy regime to access Venezuela\u2019s oil, but is now directly controlling much of Venezuela\u2019s state revenue. \u201cThe U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela\u2019s exports, then disburses it to Venezuela through the country\u2019s banking system, a relationship akin to parents handing out allowances to children,\u201d the Times reports. \u201cMr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just one of many remarkable new structures and rules that Rubio has installed to give him immense control over Venezuelan affairs. According to the Times, Rubio is administering the application of U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and determining who in the country can do business with the world without getting hit by penalties. He\u2019s helping set up U.S. access to Venezuela\u2019s oil resources, while boxing out European companies. He\u2019s constantly issuing edicts by text message directly to Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, who has turned to him for sign-off on major political appointments, including the minister of defense. When Venezuela issued a moderately critical statement of the U.S. for bombing Iran, the Trump administration quickly and successfully pressured Rodrigeuz\u2019s administration to rescind it. Rubio\u2019s control over Venezuela on behalf of Trump is so total and so outmoded that other officials in the Trump administration have reportedly started calling him \u201cviceroy.\u201d We\u2019re back in the colonial era.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This arrangement is reprehensible. The U.S. is systematically stripping Venezuela of its right to self-determination. Its \u201cstabilization\u201d and \u201crecovery\u201d phases are not about helping the long-suffering Venezuelan people but enriching U.S. corporations and enhancing U.S. geopolitical domination of the world. And the prospect of Venezuela becoming a free democracy at this point seems unlikely. There\u2019s\u00a0 been no talk of a schedule for elections, and\u00a0 it\u2019s hard to imagine the Trump administration being OK with future Venezuelan political campaigns that call out the U.S. pillaging the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

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Yet, just as unhappy colonies posed administrative and political threats to the empires that controlled them, so too could Venezuela become a thorn in Trump\u2019s side. Whose side will the administration take, for example, if every day Venezuelans feeling even more oppressed and miserable than they did under Maduro, rise up against this new government?<\/p>\n

Polling shows that the Venezuelan public\u2019s opinion of Trump is dropping quickly, most likely because Venezuelans have seen little respite from the economic deprivation they endured under Maduro. Inflation in the country remains crippling. According to data from May, year-over-year inflation in the country stands at over 500%. The Financial Times reported in June, \u201cOil production has started to take off, and executives have flown around the country in the hope of signing deals, but many ordinary Venezuelans have yet to see living standards improve.\u201d A cab driver in Caracas told the publication, \u201cEven if more money has come in from oil revenues, it hasn\u2019t reached us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Demonstrators in Venezuela have protested over the economy in recent months. It\u2019s easy to imagine\u00a0 such demonstrations growing if Venezuelans believe\u00a0their situation is unlikely to improve, and that Trump\u2019s promises to \u201cmake Venezuela great again\u201d is a lie.<\/p>\n

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