Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics

November 5, 2025

Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares

The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

The USS Sampson (DDG 102), a US Navy missile destroyer, docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City, Panama, on September 2, 2025.

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