Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.
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Topics
0:00 US war on Venezuela
1:16 (CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil
1:28 Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves
1:37 US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó
2:08 US support for dictatorships in Latin America
2:36 Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths
2:59 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
3:31 Psychological war
3:58 (CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"
4:54 US war plans
6:15 "Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist
7:44 Marco Rubio: war planner
8:20 US military buildup in Caribbean
9:26 CIA operations in Venezuela
10:18 Three options in US war plans
11:36 Chevron wants Venezuela's oil
12:26 Imperialist "Americas First" policy
14:11 War on Terror plus War on Drugs
14:44 Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war
16:03 US government is an oligarchy
16:30 Coup leader: María Corina Machado
18:01 Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars
19:17 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil
19:44 (CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit
20:38 Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump
21:24 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
22:01 (CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado
22:13 US government supports Machado
22:49 (CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support
23:41 Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets
24:22 (CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"
25:35 Machado's USA-first foreign policy
26:02 (CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran
27:59 Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua
28:40 (CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua
29:18 Machado's Bloomberg interview
29:40 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources
30:21 Privatizations create oligarchies
31:12 (CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again
31:50 US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann
32:49 Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs
35:32 Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family
36:21 Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch
37:04 Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire
38:02 María Corina Machado conspires with USA
38:44 (CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support
39:53 Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate
40:26 (CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war
40:56 Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars
41:25 (CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war
41:59 Summary
43:19 Outro
