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>>2658406Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible
chagos when are u inviting this mexican compadre into your tropical paradise
>>2659795I would be down also
>>2659801that's why it is characterized as a revival of the monroe doctrine even though said doctrine was alive and well through covert action anyway
>>2659784>drugsplainis this one of those neologisms they coin for buzzfeed articles
No one here is serious and that’s a good thing
>>2659806Being too serious in the year of our lord 2026 would inevitably drive one to suicide.
>>2659802Trump for the most part just is mask off about the same shity they were doing except recently wjere hes senile
pwesident vance :3
If you’re cooking anything with tumeric DO NOT use a wooden cutting board, that stain is nigh impossible to get out
>>2659795>>2659798you are welcome anytime. Mind you weed is considered a serious drug here and 1 gram of decent weed is like 80 american dollars. When I used to smoke 24/7, it was in South Africa. 5grams of decent afriKan sativa for 10 american dollars. You can get fancier strains for like 5 dollars per gram.
>>2659812I'm not up on the lore here, are you Mauritian?
>>2659812Do they not allow Bhat for hindu holidays?
>>2659815He is Chagossian in exile and has lived in various countries
>>2659812>>2659812Yeah i would probably abstain in other countries i only do it because its so common in cali
I might move to mexico and there ill abstain from it i dont want to enrich the cartels
illegal ayy lee ums
>>2659819To be fair even a bottle of mezcal will supply cartels depending on the bottle
>>2659817Chagos is part of the Republic of Mauritian. I am Mauritian, I was born here and grew up here. The only other country I have been to was South Africa for university.
>>2659816It is never allowed. Many mauritians do smoke weed but it is still illegal. As for me, the price is a big no no. Definitely not gonna pay a fortune to smoke when I used to get it so cheaply in south africa.
>>2659822*Republic of Mauritius
>>2659822>for university. omg he has postsecondary education
he is petty bourgeois labor aristocrat
get him
>>2659822I take it your parents/grandparents were exiled from Chagos?
>>2659821Yeah if i lkve their long enough i might just grow my own
(Its decriminalized and the local cartel wont care unless i sell it.
jd vance is calling her renee bad
>>2659811just die the rest of the cutting board with turmeric so it's uniform
>>2659826Not all countries are governed by shityanks who ask for a fortune for university. Also, when not all the money is pissed away in Funko Pops and Yeezys, you'd be amazed what you can do, even in third world shitholes.
>>2659828In fact, I
redacted redacted.
>>2659822Are you happy about the return of chagos to martious? At least minus the base?
>>2659833> shityanks who ask for a fortune for universityyanqui parasites get university for free you fucking retard. it's one of the endless treats they enjoy at our expense. never believe them when they lie about high tuition.
>>2659833>In fact, I redacted redacted.good. i hope they bled out on the beach and the ambulance was too late
>>2659812Kinda wanna try weed from the mother continent tbh
I want to go to africa but it feels to bourgoise to go anywhere that far unless i have a productive reason
>>2659837What if we just pacify rightoids by giving them a llm culture war simulator where they always own da libs?
>>2659837you aren't getting communism yanqui chimp. you're paying reparations after balkanization in the form of hard labor for actual communist countries
>>2659842The america puyi is barron or maybe hunter biden
>>2659837The way this guy clings to the flailing Trump Empire as if it's still the Shitlib World Police out to save the day and fight da bad guiz is incredible. The cognitive dissonance is off the charts.
>who cares about Greenland, China is BAD we need Trump to stop CHINALiteral NPC behaviour.
>>2659835Of course. But Chagos is only one tiny step. The whole of imperialism must be destroyed,
no matter the cost.
>>2659840I enjoy the sativa more. It feels energetic. The indica are more potent but they just make me feel sleepy. Anyway I smoked only a few times in the past 2 years. Trying to stay clean as I tend to stay high all day and slack.
>>2659848> the flailing Trump Empire>Shitlib World Policesame picture yanqui chimp. nobody cares whether they are bombed by a yanqui chimp in a blue tie or a red tie
>Trying to stay clean as I tend to stay high all day and slack.
Same tbh atleast i will start when i leave cali for now
>Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture
>Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly told US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departureBefore the US military snatched Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this month, Delcy Rodríguez and her powerful brother pledged to cooperate with the Trump administration once the strongman was gone, four sources involved at high levels with the discussions told the Guardian.
Rodríguez, who was sworn in on 5 January as acting president to replace Maduro, and her brother Jorge, the head of the national assembly, secretly assured US and Qatari officials through intermediaries ahead of time that they would welcome Maduro’s departure, according to the sources.
The communications between US officials from Delcy Rodríguez, who was then Maduro’s vice-president, began in the fall and continued after Trump and Maduro spoke in a crucial phone call in late November, the Guardian has learned, in which Trump insisted that Maduro leave Venezuela. Maduro rejected the demand.
By December, one American who was involved told the Guardian that Delcy Rodríguez told the US government she was ready: “Delcy was communicating ‘Maduro needs to go.’
“She said, ‘I’ll work with whatever is the aftermath,’” another person familiar with the messages said.
The sources say Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser, at first a skeptic about working with regime elements, came to believe that Delcy Rodríguez’s promises were the best way to prevent chaos once Maduro was gone.
The pledge of cooperation by Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez before the Maduro raid has not been previously reported. In October, the Miami Herald reported on abortive negotiations via Qatar, in which Delcy offered to act as a transitional government chief if Maduro stepped down.
Reuters reported on Sunday that Diosdado Cabello,the powerful Venezuela interior minister, who controls police and security forces, had also been in discussions with the US at a point months before the Maduro operation.
All the sources say there was a fine distinction to the agreement by Delcy Rodríguez: while the Rodríguez family promised to assist the US once Maduro was gone, they did not agree to actively help the US to topple him. The sources insist this was not a coup engineered against Maduro by the Rodríguez siblings.
Hours after the raid, Trump appeared to confirm the talks. He told the New York Post that Delcy Rodríguez was onboard. “We’ve spoken to her numerous times, and she understands, she understands.”
The Venezuelan government did not respond to emailed questions concerning this story. The White House did not respond to detailed questions.
There were many official talks between Trump officials and the Maduro-led Venezuelan government happening on top of the backchannel conversations.
Maduro himself met with Ric Grenell, a top Trump aide, just 10 days after Trump’s inauguration, to discuss US prisoners, who were quickly released.
Key Trump aides continued official talks with Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez quite often, to coordinate, for example, the bi-weekly flights of Venezuelans deported from the US, according to two sources familiar with the talks. There was a barrage of issues that had to be solved: where the deportation flights would land, the status of Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador and political prisoners that could be released.
Meanwhile Delcy Rodríguez retained very close personal ties with Qatar, where members of the ruling family considered her a friend, according to sources familiar with their relationship. Qatar, a key ally of the US, donated a $400m luxury jet for Trump’s use in an unprecedented gift from a foreign country to a president. It used the good will it had in Trump’s White House to open more doors for Rodríguez in secret negotiations, two of the sources said.
As the Miami Herald reported in October, Rodríguez tried to propose a transition government, led by her, that would rule Venezuela if Maduro agreed to a prearranged retirement in a presumed safe-haven. The plan fell through, and Rodríguez fiercely denounced the story, but key Americans began to think she was far from a two-dimensional dogmatic leader.
Those who know her describe a figure with disarming quirks that help her form bonds easily. She drinks champagne, has a private ping-pong coach and a tendency to challenge foreign dignitaries to games.
By October, sources say, in secret, even the Americans who were most aggressive against Maduro were open to working with her.
One factor was her promise to work with American oil, and her acquaintance with Americans in the oil business. “Delcy is the most committed to working with US oil,” an ally of hers said.
The sources said Mauricio Claver-Carone, a former Trump special envoy for Latin America who still had the ear of Marco Rubio despite being out of government, was one key backer.
The main goal for the US was stability once Maduro was out, given the predictions of civil war and chaos. Another of the sources said “the biggest thing was trying to avoid a failed state”.
It wasn’t until late fall that Delcy Rodríguez and her brother actually engaged in discussions with the US behind Maduro’s back.
Maduro spoke to Trump on the phone in November, and by the next week it was clear Maduro would not leave.
For Delcy Rodríguez it was a delicate dance. At the same time they made the offer, the sources say she did not agree to actively betray Maduro. “She feared him,” said one official familiar with the events.
When the US attack helicopters flew into Caracas in early January, Delcy Rodríguez was nowhere to be found. Rumors spread that she had fled to Moscow, but two sources say she was on Margarita Island, a Venezuelan vacation spot.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/delcy-rodriguez-capture-maduro-venezuela >>2659850stoopid yanks fail to see that he is clearly buying the kids
>whole of imperialism must be destroyed, no matter the cost.
Agreed
>>2659853congrats yanks. another coup was successful so you can have an endless flow of cheap treats cheap fuel etc.
you did nothing because it is in your interests to do nothing
>>2659850he is paying her for the children so he can take them to epstein island
>>2659853I hope they are wishcasting that delcy is on their side and she actualy isnt having high level ties to the uae is concerning
The venezuelan left needs to plan waht ever happens next carefully
>>2659860>muh leftnobody cares about the left wing of capital. this is a communist website.
>>2659849I admire the optimism, but Imperialism as a concept will be very, very difficult to eradicate because it inevitably arises from ego and the tendency of certain people towards domineering and subjugation of others. And once it's established somewhere, it's (relatively) easy to get people in the Imperial core to sustain the project by convincing them they can get vicarious satisfaction from the success of the empire even if it never materially benefits them in any way.
>>2659853>sources sayif this was true there would already be a visible rift within the PSUV between pro-maduristas and anti-maduristas. it's just tabloid insider journalism garbage, not real analysis or news.
>>2659852Meant for
>>2659849>>2659861What about the pcv?
>>2659853big if true. but i don't trust the guardian on this. are other outlets reporting this?
>>2659865silence liberal. go vote democrat some more
>>2659861Also even if they are captialist imperialst intervention is wrong Its wrong against cuba an ml state wrong against chile a socdem revolutionary country wrong against venezuela a socdem country wrong against iran a right wing religious theocracy and wrong against denmark (although kinda funny because denmaek helped american invade the middle east)
>>2659855you won't do anything about it because imperialism benefits you
>>2659871you are a shityank feasting on the festering corpse of venezuela. your opinion does not matter.
>>2659853Imperialist nonsense. There was no coup
>>2659875>Imperialist nonsense. There was no couppeak projection imperialist yanqui chimp. you found a comprador in delcy who will give you cheap oil. the only thing that matters to you because you drive a gas guzzling semi truck to pick up your slave-grown vegetables that rot in your fridge less than 1 mile away.
>>2659872No it doesnt
>>2659873That money went to my class enemies
>>2659868I think the WSJ ran a similar piece but again, insider sources, etc. If it's true, it's not even good news for the US, it means their capabilities to perform these sort of surgical strikes is limited. Seeing as how Trump has being greatly emboldened by the successful kidnapping of a head of state, I'd say it's not likely at all. Also it's not a coup, and also not even a single hint of pro-maduro pushback against Delcy, particularly from Diosdado, my guess is that Delcy is being careful but there was no agreement to "oust" Maduro.
>>2659878>That money went to my class enemiesyet you did nothing because it will trickle down to you through social demokkkracy
>>2659864Maybe its a lie to discredit the goverment?
>>2659877>you found a comprador in delcy who will give you cheap oil.Maduro already has sold Venezuela's oil to Chevron because selling cheap oil is much better than selling no oil.
>>2659879instead of coping about how it's not actually good for the US, how about you do something yanqui collaborator? because it benefits you.
>>2659881>>2659881We dont have social democacy here and the few socdem programs we have are being dismanteled to fund more imperialist for the ruling class
>>2659882I think they're trying to re-assure investors that conditions are ripe for investing
>>2659877Wrong. Maduro chose her as successor. You speak imperialist lies.
>>2659887>>2659888you speak imperialist lies you disgusting yanqui chimp, don't even speak to me
>>2659885>We dont have social democacy here and the few socdem programs we haveyou lie and then correct your lie in the same sentence yanqui chimp
bet you wished you'd voted kamala now haha
mods ban usapol and pin anti-usapol. ban all 5 eyes, ukrainian, israeli and nato ip addresses. rename the website "prolepol.org"
then you will have something that has the capabilities of being a communist website.
>>2659891i hope you fall out of tree like one of her coconuts yanqui chimp liberal
>>2659850but they are putting food on the girl, not the table?
>>2659856you can steal some money, fly to mexico, cross the border and do something yourself.
>>2659886 (me)
Mind you, if the Maduro kidnapping fails to attract the necessary investment to actually realize the looting/extraction, the whole operation would have been a really spectacular failure, especially as news of the operation have been slowly trickling at a glacier pace (e.g. we know that it took 200 special ops foot soldiers against a security detail of 30, that there were actually US casualties in the operation, etc) which will make it seem an even bigger failure.
>>2659896>there were actually US casualties in the operationnot enough
>>2659899inshallah more US soldiers become casualties, brother.
>>2659895>you can steal some money, fly to mexico, cross the border and do something yourself. we are going to skin you alive, roll you around in salt and broken glass, throw you in a vat of lemon juice, stitch you up, and do it all over again until you fucking DIE. and then we will mourn that you didn't suffer enough
>>2659901don't extend your bloodstained paw and pretend to be my brother you disgusting yanqui chimp
>>2659903I'm from mexico lol
>>2659890See, this is what I said last thread. This guy is just a reactionary. "America bad" is his entire worldview.
>>2659890You are wrong. Delcy is not comprador. You are the comprador
>>2659906These posts are really really low effort, it's not even worth engaging beyond riffing
>>2659890Comrade, please keep in mind that social democracy which is fueled by savage Nazi imperialism over the whole world is just fascism. So the mechanism of gifting the fat yank animal greasy treatgibs, while appearing social-democratic, is in fact fascist. Remember that Hitler gave his aryans many treatgibs precisely by plundering and murdering the rest of Europe.
>>2659793a country of 340 million pedos
including the children
>>2659792>teehee lenin was a mushrooma myth propagated by druggie liberals in dying ussr
>>2659806i am serious yanqui chimp. you can't imagine people are serious because your entire life is a joke at the expense of the proletariat
>>2659808i will drive yanqui chimps to suicide
>>2659809i will rip the "mask" known as your skkkin from your yankkki chimp face
>>2659908stop trolling false flagging yank scum
>>2659906> "America bad" is his entire worldview.that's right yanqui chimp. it's all anyone needs to know. but muh gommulism. you are not even proletarian. there is no american proletariat
>>2659910i will engage in homocide against yanqui scum
>>2659913social demokkkracy is the moderate wing of fascism, read stalin and unyankify your brain. you talk too much to yank animals comrade
>>2659886I was reading about how the oil fields are in so bad condition that it would take years or decades to create a return on investment and demand is projected to decrease by that time.
They might want that oil to garantee a supply for military porposes into the mid 21st century.
Or trump just wanted it
The oil from the stolen tankers is going to trumps personal account
>>2659906'America bad', while simple, encapsulates the totality of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Simplicity must be appreciated. Only anti-scientific liberal-arts whores value unnecessary complexity.
>>2659911bitch bouta get caught in a cartoon booby trap net and locked in a basement
>>2659916you don't need return on investment when you stole it in the first place yanqui chimp. it's literally free. they will enslave venezuelan proles
>>2659917leninist truth nuke
>>2659915Well America is not the moderate wing of fascism (Stalin said it is the 'left wing of fascism', not moderate, if I'm not mistaken). America is the fascist wing of fascism. America has moved well beyond 'fascism with a human face'.
>>2659918Delcy rodriguez is doing everything that the US wants and functioning as a puppet state for them so they have no reason to harm her at all. They are extremely happy with what she does and how she is leading.
>>2659917I'd argue it's probably not a future-proofed one however, given the Americans are on the way out. It's also prone to being used for nationalist rather than internationalist purposes. The Iranians can scream Death to America all they want, it won't make them a bastion of socialism, for instance.
>>2659902little man talking big. you wont even take some risk to travel to america and do what you complain americans wont do. why not? practice what you preach, coward
>>2659923Okay friend you keep telling yourself that. The evidence will continue to pile up over time as she collaborates more and more and submits to doing exactly what the USA wants. There will be no way for you to avoid reality eventually so just let time pass my friend
>>2659927tupac amaru will return as millions, yanqui chimp. and then you will die the way he died
>>2659923Its more of a wait and see moment right now i hope shes on the bolivarian side and has a strategy for this.
>>2659919Wrong. Venezuela will remain free. Refrain from spreading imperialist lies
>>2659921Wrong. Delcy is leader of war against amerika.
>>2659932you are imperialist liar who downplays amerikkkan enslavement of venezuelans for oil. you are george bush III
>>2659929huh? he was killed by the spanish not yanks
>>2659933Well he changed his mind when he had the comintern issue guidance to the parties to form popular fronts in the 1930s
>>2659931Delcy moves forward with correct strategy of peace and win-win cooperation and shared harmonious development for mankind.
>>2659936I guess yanks are the new spanish.
>>2659937history vindicated social fascism theory, yanqui chimp. you embody it. see AOCIA. see HaSSan PiKKKer. See Bernie Zionders. See Ziohran Bombdummy
>>2659926Since the US has nukes it almost certainly will never be "gone". This just comes off as an excuse to justify literally any state being the way it is in perpetuity so long as it opposes the US, which is hardly going to emancipate anyone if that's all you leave it at. Imagine if everyone was still obsessing about the British Empire just because Britain still exists (again, nuclear-armed state so it's not going anywhere) even in 1990 or something when it should be blatantly obvious the problem is now the Americans.
>>2659922>americans are on the way outHistory is simply the sum total of human activity. The Americans will have to be
pushed out. If we sit and wank over the invariant dharma like leftcoms, nothing will ever happen.
>iraniansNo reasonable person thinks of Iran as socialist. Iranians are revolutionary and anti-imperialist simply by refusing to bend to America. As such, regardless of their religious retardation, they satisfy the primary requirement of anti-imperialism.
I can turn your own argument against you: the Western Leftists can scream be pedantic nitpickers and Marx quote-miners all they want, it won't heal a dying child.
Llike all 'libertarian socialists' (an oxymoron), if you cannot get everything everywhere immediately, you'd rather sit with nothing. It is no wonder that the greased-up member of the privileged yank tribe is in no hurry to disturb the status quo. Mighty comfortable is his fat posterior.
>>2659936>>2659940the yank chimp makes the spanish conquistador look like a gentleman
>>2659943>Since the US has nukes it almost certainly will never be "gone"it will nuke the world to save itself the way the kulak burns his own grain. you are the kulak who eats the world
>>2659932Delcy Rodriguez is the leader in collaborating with America
What is it with MLs and childish namecalling?
>>2659939Doesnt mean shes guilty (she still might be, i just dont think this proves anything)
>>2659933Ok, I stand corrected. Still my initial point stands. America cannot even be described as the 'moderate wing' of anything. It is clearly the fascist wing of fascism.
It is to the right of Nazism.
USAnians be like "it's 110349u12395u129485u129834u51234 degrees outside!!!! (freezing point of water)" use real units already fucking retards
>>2659943you cry for iranian blood because they are "not socialist enough". but you are zionist nazi, yanqui chimp. your tears are faked.
>>2659952correct
>>2659950marxism leninism is a science. be glad we only call you names and do not do worse.
>>2659950Most of them are just nationalists trying to pretend it's ok when they do it. Hence, having a reactionary mindset, they are drawn to tribalistic shitflinging the same way self-admitted reactionaries are.
>>2659950some chin please. MLs are called 'stalinoids, tankies, red fascists' all the time. We do not bitch. We retort by calling their mothers whores.
>>2659957nationalism is essential for the oppressed nations until the imperialist menace is vanquished. read lenin, yank chimp:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/dec/15.htm<in their fear of playing into the hands of the bourgeois nationalism of oppressed nations, people play into the hands not merely of the bourgeois but of the reactionary nationalism of the oppressor nation. - Lenin
that literally describes you "anti campist" social demokkkrats perfectly
>>2659942Hasans is irevelent in the real world
Bernie i agree is imperialist
Aoc can get fucked
Zohran is so far more good that bad
A bettee example would be the spd bejng pro nato
>>2659957You think there was an 'abolish nations' in big red Kremlin and Stalin refused to press it?
Scream 'abolish money, familiy, nations, commodities' all you want, it will happen when the material conditions are ripe for it to happen.
>>2659953the yank chimp holds onto his measurement system, literally called IMPERIAL and cries crocodile tears as the whole world uses metric. they would rather blow up astronauts by accident than learn what a kilometer is. look, they even drew this cartoon about how the metric system was being "Forced" upon them (it wasn't) the same year bolshevism brought the light of scientific measurements to semi feudal tsardom.
the yank chimp cries out in pain as he throws shit at you
>>2659939>wikipediaThis is the amerikan general, sir. Everything on wikipedia is imperialist lies. The page has been edited thousands of times by the CIA this week. Your usage of this source demonstrates the imperialist nature of those who call delcy comprador.
>>2659944My objection is that, and I suspect I'm right, you're more interested in seeing the US fall than in, say, ensuring one's own nation is a socialist country. After all, as you yourself said, your primary requirement here is being anti-imperialist which means so long as you can tell yourself the Americans are still a threat (which, again, since they have nukes, they always will be), the revolution against whatever odious despot a country finds itself under conveniently has to be indefinitely deferred until you can manufacture some way to cause the US to totally disintegrate.
>>2659966i love that political cartoon so much lol
>start to analyze the situation in venezuela
>instead lets derail the thread
>>2659963Ugandan petit-bourgeois rootless cosmopolitan Ziohran Mamdani has Maduro illegally sequestrated in his city and he does nothing. Prior to the invasion, he even called him a 'dictator', hence giving tacit approval to the invasion and kidnapping.
The retard BlackRedGuard, supposedly a Maoist, supposedly in the DSA to maintain a more 'communist' presence there, has not even thrown one (1) Molotov cocktail in Mamdani's apartment as protest.
SHAME.
>>2659971This shit should be an instant ban
>>2659971>the yank chimp thinks everything should revolve around his "geopolitical analysis" rather than the people whose lives he destroysmany such cases
>>2659853The guy that killed Chavez got got by one of his own? Lol
>>2659963ziohran bombdummy is on chabad's leash stupid yanqui cuck
>>2659969Life is not a blank canvas where I can choose to focus primarily on big bad ayatollah and leave american imperialism in the background. Whether you like it or not, oppsoing American imperialism is the
primary form of the real movement. Opposing America gives rise to new phenomena and situations which can be seen as a great unfolding of socialism. You have a PMC checklist mentality. You are not a Marxist.
>>2659977die leftcom scum
>same usual weirdos show up to derail the Venezuela thread out of nowhere
Some really interesting developments must be happening.
>>2659949Wrong. Delcy is not collaborating. Delcy is fighting for peace
>>2659969you really are a fat pig who should be stuck on a spit roast and lit on fire
>>2659969the US is the biggest obstacle to socialism anywhere you CIA bootlicking retard.
>>2659983CIA
Coup Clux Clanner
>>2659981If I had the luxury and time time to be a moderator I'd play whack-a-mole with these cunts like no tomorrow
>>26599711. which posts do you think are derailing the thread?
2. you do realise people who are interested in engaging in the venezuela affair can still see your posts and they can choose to reply to that, right? Are you under the impression that everybody else must stop talking and roll the red carpet for you?
>>2659952I think until recently the american empire was more subtle and effecient than the nazis the nazi controlled poland by invading it the americans control central america by finding colaborators starting a puppet goverment and rigging elections,
This is more stable then the nazi genocide machine
But now american imperialism now is becoming less finely tuned and will probably be more violent because it will lack finese
>Venezuela opens debate on an oil sector overhaul as Trump seeks role for US firmsCARACAS – Venezuela’s legislature opened debate Thursday on a bill to loosen state control over the country's vast oil sector in the first major overhaul since the late socialist leader Hugo Chávez nationalized parts of the industry in 2007.
The legislation would create new opportunities for private companies to invest in the oil industry and establish international arbitration for investment disputes.
Following the U.S. capture of former President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, the Trump administration has ramped up pressure on acting President Delcy Rodríguez and other allies of the ousted leader to invite greater investment from U.S. energy companies in Venezuela’s flagging oil industry.
A draft of the proposed legislation, a copy of which was seen by The Associated Press, represents a sharp turn away from the resource nationalism of Chávez, who accused multinationals of colonial exploitation and considered the country's oil wealth to be state property.
In apparent response to demands from U.S. oil executives, the proposed legislation would allow private companies to independently operate oil fields, market their own crude output and collect the cash revenues despite remaining, on paper, minority partners to the state oil company.
“The operating company shall assume the comprehensive management of the execution of the activities, at its sole cost, expense and risk,” the draft says, adding that portions of production volumes “may be directly commercialized by the operating company, once governmental obligations have been fulfilled.”
Crucially, the bill also would let companies settle legal disputes through arbitration in international courts rather than only local courts.
The legislation also would keep the current 30% royalty rate, but let the government cut royalties and taxes to as low as 15% for expensive or hard-to-develop oil projects, so that companies would be more willing to inves
The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and the acting president's brother, Jorge Rodríguez, told lawmakers at the start of Thursday’s debate that the bill aims to “allow an accelerated increase in production” of oil in Venezuela.
“Oil under the ground is useless,” he said, referring to the need to boost oil production and open up new exploration opportunities.
Pushed by Delcy Rodríguez, the bill is expected to advance swiftly through the ruling party-dominated legislature. Lawmakers concluded the initial discussion of the bill on Thursday after around two hours and advanced the legislation to a second round of debate, yet to be scheduled.
During the session, Orlando Camacho, a lawmaker and head of Venezuela’s national Fedeindustria business association, told the assembly that the bill would ensure that Venezuela’s oil industry “remains the engine of the country.”
The proposed legal guarantees — ensuring that foreign companies can bring claims against Venezuela before international bodies — are necessary to attract private investment, he said.
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to lure American companies to reboot Venezuela's oil sector, many remain concerned about the financial and legal risks of pouring billions of dollars into the country.
Plenty of investors have been burned before, their assets seized as Chávez nationalized parts of Venezuela’s lucrative oil industry in 2007. Firms like Exxon have been trying to get the Venezuelan government to compensate them for their billions of dollars in losses ever since, to no avail.
The current political uncertainty also worries investors. There is no timeline for holding democratic elections in Venezuela after Maduro's ouster as Rodríguez, long Maduro's loyal second in command, seeks to consolidate control. The Trump administration also hasn't said when it will lift the crippling sanctions imposed to weaken Maduro's government, which further restrict foreign operations in the country's oil sector.
https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2026/01/22/venezuela-opens-debate-on-an-oil-sector-overhaul-as-trump-seeks-role-for-us-firms/ >>2659988go volunteer to enforce anti-"burgerphobia" you reactionary imperialist scum
>>2659992I would crush your shitposting cockroach ways beneath the heel of my iron boot, scum
>>2659975The continued existence of socialist countries founded in the 20th century like Vietnam, Laos, China, Cuba, etc, already disproves this. You realise that by this logic, any socialist revolution in any country that you deem anti-imperialist can be justifiably crushed because it might compromise the fight to destroy America?
You're not saying anything to convince me you're not a reactionary.
>>2659989The guy who replied to an effort post with muh yankee chimps
>>2659990>I think until recently the american empire was more subtle and effecient than the nazisyou stupid fat ugly american faggot you gave indians smallpox blankets, bulldozed them into mass graves, made blacks pick your cotton, then the nazis took notes and decided your "one drop rule" was actually
not subtle enough because they needed mixed "race" aryan/jewish collaborators in the wehrmacht
>>2659997which "effort" post was that, yanqui chimp? I never reply
just with yanqui chimp, but i demonstrate with scientific marxist leninist clarity and brevity why the yanqui chimp is a liar and apologist
>>2659990Very concerning but so where the deng reforms and those were a winning move
>>2659999I m comparing something like the neocolonial control of latin america, to soemething like what the germans did in poland
I'm starting to think discussing US foreign policy in the USApol thread is just a bait in general. Nothing productive will ever come of it. We should be discussing the ICE protests and how to amplify them into full scale resistance, not the daily Trump Greenland gossip.
>>2659995>You're not saying anything to convince me you're not a reactionary.i don't exist to convince yanqui chimps of anything. every breath you take i stolen from real workers
>>2659979It really doesn't interest me whether you think I'm a Marxist. The fact is that this line that the anti-American struggle is paramount above everything else is an obvious psyop to justify the continued existence of any government no matter what its form so long as it proclaims to be art of this struggle. That, conveniently, means it can act however it wants, no matter how contrary to socialist principles, because those have been subordinated indefinitely to fighting America.
If morality didn't inform my politics I wouldn't be a socialist, I'd just side with whoever would make me the most money.
>>2659853So was this or maduro phoning Trump to say he would sell the country and break relations with China/Russia as long as he got to keep some amount of his "Cartel de los Soles" money?
Was that before or after the USA decided the Suns cartel didn't exist in any way they could legally prosecute?
And was it the first time OR the second time this happened according to "sources"?
And was it during or after the definitely gusano uprising that was definitely happening?
IDK man, I'm kind of behind on the glowie agenda. I get that these outlets need to publish what the USSD sends them, verbatim, but I just can't follow these days. I don't have the energy to care so that I can litigate some cunt on social media by throwing their own "respected sources" at them.
It's all bullshit and I don't fucking care anymore.
>>2659916>>2660000The thing about the oil feilds being in a bad state and the oil companies would need to invest billions of dollars to increase oil production . And the implications it has for why the oil was stolen
Only for you to reply muh yanks
Do you have anything to add?
Why is Chagos not ban on sight?
>>2660013they stole the oil. that in itself is a return on investment for whatever extra they need to pay their slaves to refine it
>>2660010don't worry sensitive little yanqui chimp. eventually the mods will stop jacking off to child porn on their matrix server and come in here to clean up the place so that it's a safe space for amerikkkan chauvinists again. chagos and I will be banned like always. we aren't even allowed to have an anti-amerikkka general for us to be "quarantined" in
>>2659988I wish someone would.
Mods hate Venezuela and are fine with current state of things.
>>2660015The DPRK is probably the most hilarious example of overdosing so hard on being anti-American you accept reverting into absolute monarchy just to maintain it.
>>2660006I usually don't fedjacket but you might as well be a wrecker counter-intel agent. Also it's not working. No one cares.
its time to wordfilter yanqui
>>2659995>any socialist revolution in any country that you deem anti-imperialist can be justifiably crushed because it might compromise the fight to destroy AmericaA socialist revolution intensifies the fight to destroy America, it does not compromise it. Also, most of these countries are not even trying to destroy America, they do not have the capacity to. They are merely resisting America's bullish demands to bend over and get fucked.
>>2660010You seem to think that a wholesome socialist 'experiment' can exist side-by-side with American imperialism. That does not and can not ever happen. Any serious attempt of socialism will draw even greater savagery from imperialism. I would wholeheartdely support a socialist revolution in Iran. Because (i) it is socialist, (ii) socialists would oppose american imperialism much further than the ayatollah regime. But it is clear to anyone that the socialist forces in Iran are far too small and weak to be even in the top three forces to seize power if the ayatollah regime falls. The serious contenders are (i) pahlavist pro-american pro-zionist rightoids (ii) neoliberal parliamentary sham democrats (iii) persian supremacists.
An adult must be able to separate his desires from actual, material, physical reality.
>>2660021> overdosing so hard on being anti-American BECAUSE AMERICANS CUT THEIR COUNTRY IN HALF, ENFORCED A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN THE 1940S, DID THE NO GUN RI MASSACRE, KILLED 20% OF THEIR POPULATION, BOMBED ALL THEIR SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, ETC., AND FORCED THEM TO REBUILD THEIR ENTIRE COUNTRY FROM SCRATCH UNDER STRICT SANCTIONS WHILE INJECTING BILLIONS INTO THE SOUTHERN COMPRADOR REGIME
> reverting into absolute monarchyGOOD JOB BELIEVING CIA PROPAGANDA YOU DISGUSTING WORM
>>2660017Its not the labour thats going to cost them its machinery.
They might not need to increase production
If that isnt there intention
1) the plan is to enrich trump and friends short term
(Oil tanker was stolen money went to pedo in chief)
2) venezuela attack was meant to distract from internal problems
3)marcos ahab like obession against all form of socialist government in latin america
4) your option here?
Anyways I can't wait for the general strike in minneapolis tomorrow. Gonna be unique and weird, but mostly probably a positive experience utilizing the escalation from the fascist counter-protesters as a source of struggle to further develop the nascent and embryonic consciousness of the local working class. Gonna be a lot to analyze for sure.
>>2660024>I usually don't fedjacket but everything before "but" is bullshit
> you might as well be a wrecker counter-intel agent. Also it's not working. No one cares.why because i'm kind enough to educate americans on why the world hates them?
>>2660014What is your problem?
>>2660021The DPRK has no choice in opposing America. You seem to think America respects the sovereignty of other countries. America actively demands that the rest of the world bends over. If not, you are an enemy. In this context, DPRK correctly understands that anti-American Imperialism is a sine qua non for an indepedent, sovereign Korea.
>>2660031they got the oil for free. they can just resell it for a profit without even processing it
>>2660033Interesting to see how it grows, there have been many irelevent general strike declared.on.reddit or something if this one picks up any steam it will be a huge development
>>2660036Long term it isnt a sustainable buisness model what is there plan,?
If there is no plan what does that for imperialism in 2026?
>>2660040Typical Nazi strategy. Have a strong fifth column in the leadership positions in the country, invade with overwhelming force. Blitzkrieg magic, minimal losses, total victory, brag about it.
Fucking Quisslings.
>>2660027I didn't say it could necessarily co-exist, only that there is no definite expiration date on the United States (hell, most former empires are still around, just with little/no empire left outside the core) and, therefore, using it as an excuse to defend reactionary or traditional regimes so long as they oppose America is something I will not do because you're potentially asking me to spend my entire life defending those assholes. Not that I would do it anyway, because they don't deserve it. The best you can say is they're useful pawns to use against America.
>>2660021not the anon but you seem really misinformed about North Korea. You should listen to Blowback Season 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Q2-99oqj4&list=PLf03ejEKGKxz_18pujOXGSX1_PrDUW4MFmaybe check out their bibliography for that season as well. A lot of good books in there. My grandfather was black infrantry in Korean War and he basically admitted he was just doing war crimes for no good reason while almost getting bombed by the US air force
>>2660034Because you act like a fed, talk like a fed, and wreck like a fed, so you might as well be a fed.
It's one thing to be anti-imperialist, it's another thing to be so hateful and reactionary that you scream total burger death and shit up the thread in all caps.
So you're either
1. deeply mentally ill/violent and extremist to the point of incoherence and counter-productivity for communism as a movement at large, wasting your personal time screaming into the void about something no one gives a shit about or
2. paid to do this, because that would be the only rational reason someone would spend this much time exploding and derailing any normal discussing that could take place.
>>2659995holy shit the absolute state
>>2660042I wonder if they'll find anyone. Hopefully not american imperialism in latin america relies a lot on quislingism
>>2660048everything you said, but unironically. critical support for latin american gangsters against ICE
>>2660010> the continued existence of any government no matter whatstart with yours, then. after all, it's been 80 years of
them destroyed.
>>2660035I didn't say they have a choice in opposing America, I'm saying being a monarchy doesn't exactly make you better off.
>>2660048Less of a criminal than the agent and his bosses
The argument that the entirety of the american working class is completely irredeemable should be a bannable subject. It flies in the face of any rational materialist thought. To shit on the American superstructure and bourgeoisie is one thing, but to declare the necessary death of every American in the population is obviously stupid, incessant, distracting, and counterproductive. It is also demoralizing to those who are susceptible to this, and general waste of energy to combat this sort of manic hyper-posting.
this site sucks
>>2660033Yeah this is gonna be based af. I wish I lived there so I could be part of it.
>inb4 yanqui-poster screams that they deserve to get shot by Trump's gestapo because Americans are inherently demonic or something >>2660052They aren't a monarchy, anon. someone sent you a pic of their government structure above.
>>2660044I'm not misinformed, it is literally a monarchy in all but name. You'd have to twist the definition of monarchy to claim it isn't one.
>>2660049We shouldn't blame them if they need to smuggle a bale of fent or two, they just trying to feed dey kids. I would do the same if I had beans for brains. Fuck da police. Kill fascists.
>>2660048Worry not pig-lover, this is a calculated operation to grow the brownshirts and repilcate BLM.
Nothing will come of this except a more brutal security state and a new wedge issue for the vooters.
>>2660058you make up things I didn't say while ignoring what I did say
>>2660052meanwhile you repeat CIA propaganda slandering DPRK as "monarchist" despite evidence shown to you
>>2660057Used to be great in 2016
>>2660056"Working class" is a meaningless vaguery based on vibes specifically crafted to include unproductive "workers" who's labor value is produced fro the rape and exploitation of the third world. Did you perhaps mean "proletariat"? Because that's something completely different. Nobody has ever argued that America has no "workers" whatever that even means, just that it has no meaningful proletarian base and the population is overwhelmingly violently against communism. Especially the ones calling themselves communists. Look at libsoc anon above with his racist takes about the DPRK, this is the average American "communist". This is who we're supposed to believe will lead le heckin revolution against the orange man
>>2660048>>2660063shut the fuck up jewish nigger
>>2660058and also, by the way unless you're already aware and not a newfag: this sort of obvious reactionary maoist standard english TWist kill-all-burgers brigading happens very often. Not sure of the source, don't know if it's cointelpro or just actual mental illness from emanadoids, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on normal marxists here. It mostly just distracts from any good effortposts.
>>2660056>The argument that the entirety of the american working class is completely irredeemable should be a bannable subject.what american working class. your working class is immigrants and prisoners. the rest of you are labor aristocrats, lumpen, and petty bourgeois
>>2660064>repilcate BLMSounds good to me, all they managed to do was swindle cracker libsharts into giving them money.
>>2660070>normal marxists normal adult marxists who don't care how many people die for their treats
>>2660060The structure doesn't change the fact that the Kim Dynasty controls the country making a monarchy. It's a hereditary dictatorship, that is *literally* what a monarchy is.
>>2660072Oy vey! You cant just point out the obvious fact that the American proletariat is all but nonexistent! You're literally doing a heckin Holocaust and a January 6th!!!!
>>2660061you're even worse than the average yank chimp on here if you think DPRK is a monarchy. multiple sources have been given to you. consult them or fuck off.
>>2660080that's obviously the goal of these twisters, to shit up the site so no one wants to post here. Which is fine, whatever. Real organization is happening throughout the world on the ground and one website with barely 100 people isn't going to affect that one way or the other.
>>2660085>telling the yankee chimp that DPRK is not in fact a monarchy is trolling nowwhat happened to this place. oh that's right. pedophilic NAFO mods
>>2660083>a heckin Holocaust and a January 6th!!!!how many nine elevens is that
>>2660081Kim Jong Un is popularly elected, has been for over a decade and a half. This may shock you, but in countries where their governments aren't run by sociopathic pedophiles people actually support them
>>2660089That's objectively false and no, you can't convince me otherwise.
Meant to reply:
>>2660081>>2660061
>monarchy in all but namename in the DPRK constitution and DPRK law:
>what article talks about blood succession.>what dynastic and successional laws exist.>what's the actual position of KJU.go on. I'll wait.
>>2660070would you say people who hate Israel are mentally ill or just a psyop too?
>>2660092>you can't convince meWhat is even the point in discussing here then?
>>2660092>just uncritically repeating anti-DPRK lies and refusing to even look at our sourcesyou're even worse than the "trolls"
Eventually these retards will wear themselves out and then leave. No use engaging with them.
>>2660076Yeah but i see hes points people were saying that protests in Indonesia are a color revolution because Indonesia signed a minor deal with brics when Indonesia has been THE pro american imperialist puppet state from 1960s to the 1990s and still has all the pro imperialist structures in its army or its deep state. Like if you live Indonesia you shouldnt try to change the goverment if because they signed a deal with brics?
>>2660095There isn't, really. You guys are impervious to reason because your anti-American tribalism prevents you from even acknowledging objective reality, ironically just like most Americans do due to their own nationalism.
>>2660093ummm the constitution is like a lie or something because umm kim jong un isn't dead… checkmate tankie!!!!!
>>2660100You're not going to convince the manic rage-bait TWisters of anything. Might as well ignore them until they get bored
>>2660100DPRK is not a monarchy. Even multiple of your own fellow yanqui chimps ITT are chiming in about how you are wrong while distancing themselves from the "anti-amerikkkans"
>>2660103>i don't like the TWisters therefore DPRK is a monarchygreat argument faggot
>>2660083If the american proletariat doesnt exist because the american empire does it mean that there was no british proletariat at the time of marx and engels because the British had colonies in the world some of them the sight of genocides?
>>2660100>You guys are impervious to reason because your anti-American tribalism prevents you from even acknowledging objective reality, ironically just like most Americans do due to their own nationalism.nationalism is essential for the oppressed nations until the imperialist menace is vanquished. read lenin, yank chimp:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/dec/15.htm<in their fear of playing into the hands of the bourgeois nationalism of oppressed nations, people play into the hands not merely of the bourgeois but of the reactionary nationalism of the oppressor nation. - Lenin
that literally describes you "anti campist" social demokkkrats perfectly
>>2660099It wasn't just the fact that the chimpout coincidentally started right after Indonesia signed deals with China, it was also the fact that they were being lead by anarchists and were given nothing but praise from neo-nazi outlets like Crimethinc. When literal neo-nazis are cheering on your "resistance" maybe that's a sign to stop and think about what you're actually fighting for?
>>2660100You have been consistently wrong on all issues. You are a liberal who thinks socialism and imperialism can co-exist. You fail to understand that socialism is anti-imperialist by definition and that it is not a choice.
>>2660101honestly, I wouldn't expect a different reply.
>>2660107>If the american proletariat doesnt exist because the american empire does the american proletariat doesnt exist because the american empire, unlike the british empire, outsourced all the real jobs or gave them to prison slaves and deportable immigrants.
>>2660107>what are material conditionsYou cant seriously be THIS retarded. Are you? Do I have to congratulate you on managing to get dressed in the morning?
>>2660099What probability was there that the protests would result in socialists seizing state power in Indonesia?
>ancom believes DPRK is monarchy
>anyone who disagrees is "TWister"
nah dude. just nah. DPRK got the shit bombed out of them. they have an autocratic government and yeah there's a bit of a cult of personality around the kim family but their actual head of state is elected. Kim is more ceremonial.
>>2660114High if you include National Socialists who would make Indonesia a vassal state to the Yanks again
>France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet".
>French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was "subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag".
>The French navy, with the assistance of allies including the UK, boarded the vessel on Thursday morning between Spain and Morocco. French maritime authorities said that a search of the vessel had "confirmed the doubts as to the regularity of the flag".
state piracy is back baby
>>2660107Sites of genocides
>>2660109See the crimethinc thing shows how internetbrained you are, thinking crimethinc means anything for the indonesian protests is like the guys on /pol/ who think the trump election is because of gamer gate
The average indonesian is unaware of crimethinc (i vaguely remember who they are).
Ignoring any group that piled on,
Are you saying that people in indonesian don't have the right to try to change their puppet goverment?
>>2660095he can even request deepseek and chatgpt to read in the DPRK laws and find if there is any state structure that postulate successional laws, and give him an overview on whether his beliefs are certain or wrong. fucking tool
>>2660100, it's 2026, use the internet, read, ոіggа, read.
Much confusion about the American proletariat here.
The Chagossian position is
1. An American proletariat definitely exists.
2. That American proletariat is an orphan. It is not unionised, it has no Party, it has not had a culture in many decades now.
3. That American proletariat has shown no interest in the imperialist activities of its ruling class.
In that sense, Israel is an extension of the USA. An Israeli proletariat definitely exists, but do not expect it to lift a finger for the Palestinian cause.
Forget about the Third World, the American proletariat has shown no interest of solidarity with even the European and Japanese proletarians. That is not to say that they are cheerleaders of their country's imperialism, but simply that they show pathetic indifference. They are in a drunken haze, it seems.
>>2660123It doesn't matter how "aware" anarchist agitators in Indonesia claim to be of Crimethinc, the fact of the matter is that they were endorsed by multiple highly influential and well funded neo-nazi outlets including Crimethinc.
>m-muh self determinationRetarded individualist
honestly the trolls had everyone by the balls biting their bait until the starflag guy dropped his sincere but stupid opinion that north korea is a monarchy LOL
>>2660112Are you saying the British didnt export capital?
Are you saying that the inflows from colonialism didnt bring capital to the British bourgeoisie?
Are you saying that the British proles didnt see even some slight benefit from being part of the British empire (even if it was a small one inflated from propaganda)?
>>2660010>If morality didn't inform my politics this makes you a liberal btw try reading marx
>>2660099this demonstrates that the people are ready for revolution, but the Marxists are not there to guide them, a failure on their part. yes every state persecutes communists but so did the tsarist regime so it's not much of an excuse
>>2660131I don't worship Karl Marx. It wouldn't matter if he directly said "morality doesn't matter", I still wouldn't agree with that.
>Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez will soon visit the United States, a senior US official said Wednesday, further signalling US President Donald Trump’s willingness to embrace the oil-rich country’s new leader.
>Delcy Rodriguez would be the first sitting Venezuelan president to visit the United States in more than a quarter of a century – aside from presidents attending United Nations meetings in New York.
>>2660127>>2660127Considering how much you guys call everything neonazi i doubt they are they are probably just rad libs
>m-muh self determinationHo chi minh fought for that. Marx supported it for ireland and poland.
>Retarded individualistArent all americans individually guilty for what the us government does? Atleast thats what you claim
>>2660068Factory workers in the third world are also unproductive and exploit their supposed fellow countrymen. Unless you think creating funko pops is productive? Unless you think being paid a higher wage than most make in a year at peasent expenses is not exploitative? They also will never overthrow their own bourgeoisie and in fact support them taking advantage of the slaves who actually extract the resources.
You need to take your ideology to it's conclusions. You can't stop halfway just because it's convenient for you.
>>2660134I agree i dont think anarchists are correct (but they do good work sometimes) and the protests failed so better leadership in strategy was needed.
>>2660136Anon asks you to
read Marx and you reply that you do not
worship Marx. Is reading worshipping?
Marx was the first to put the study of human society on firm scientific basis. Reading Marx is non-negotiable for a socialist.
>>2660136Based. I like you.
>>2660143Oh yeah CHAZ was great work. Really productive when they burned down part of their city and got all their food stolen by homeless fent addicts on day two so they had to beg for vegan soy products on twitter. Sad!
>>2660146libertarian socialism poster has some good takes from time to time. I like his "mcdonalds worker literally president for a term" vision of higher stage communism
>>2660148They had literal goons roaming the streets and killing people. I also heard that there were quite a few rapes.
>>2660144The worship is implied. He's basically saying "Marx thinks this doesn't matter so you shouldn't either" because HE worships Marx.
>>2660126i see no problem with that analysis. i agree with that.
This changes everything.
>Protesting the government in US
Treatlerist socdem fascist waste of time
>protesting the government in a us neocolony
Color revolution glow op
>protesting in a non us alligned country
Same
<shitposting about amerikkkan shitty yanks on leftypol
The only trVe praxis
Atlast i truely see…
im tired of this waste of time reply if you want im not wasting more of this day on this thread i wont read whatever you guys post
>>2660126Are American beach tourists proletarian?
>>2660152No. He asked you to read Marx in relation to the 'morality' comment. This is often misunderstood as immorality = Marxism. Marxism is simply amoral. It studies human society and history in a scientific manner. Some conclusions will be pleasing, others not. The proletariat is elevated to the highest position not out of love for the worker, but because it is the consequence of Marxist analysis.
In short, anon asked you to read Marx so that you can have better arguments than simple morality. What even is morality in the abstract? The jihadist has his own morality, so does the Nazi.
>>2660148Food not bombs feeds people every weeks thats more than mls (and i say this an ml)
Most protest are anarchist lead and run and the do an impressive amount of organization just popup med tents supplies, look outs
the mythical price of egg
>non amerikkkans are humans too
<cool it with the burgerphobic remarks you fucking fed
>North Korea is a monarchy no wonder they're so cuh-razy and cartoonishly against the people who destroyed every single city in their country
<so true!!!!
this thread never ceases to amaze me
>>2660152you think north korea is a monarchy. you should be thrown into a mineshaft feet first
bill yuns
>>2660146>Based. I like you.do you ALSO think north korea is monarchist
>>2660160The Egg-Price Theory of Value, the theory of value for the brave who measure length in football fields.
>kim jong un is literally oppressing me like king george iii; we must overthrow the north korean monarchy
- average shartistani
>Venezuela opens debate on an oil sector overhaul as Trump seeks role for US firmsCARACAS – Venezuela’s legislature opened debate Thursday on a bill to loosen state control over the country's vast oil sector in the first major overhaul since the late socialist leader Hugo Chávez nationalized parts of the industry in 2007.
The legislation would create new opportunities for private companies to invest in the oil industry and establish international arbitration for investment disputes.
Following the U.S. capture of former President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, the Trump administration has ramped up pressure on acting President Delcy Rodríguez and other allies of the ousted leader to invite greater investment from U.S. energy companies in Venezuela’s flagging oil industry.
A draft of the proposed legislation, a copy of which was seen by The Associated Press, represents a sharp turn away from the resource nationalism of Chávez, who accused multinationals of colonial exploitation and considered the country's oil wealth to be state property.
In apparent response to demands from U.S. oil executives, the proposed legislation would allow private companies to independently operate oil fields, market their own crude output and collect the cash revenues despite remaining, on paper, minority partners to the state oil company.
“The operating company shall assume the comprehensive management of the execution of the activities, at its sole cost, expense and risk,” the draft says, adding that portions of production volumes “may be directly commercialized by the operating company, once governmental obligations have been fulfilled.”
Crucially, the bill also would let companies settle legal disputes through arbitration in international courts rather than only local courts.
The legislation also would keep the current 30% royalty rate, but let the government cut royalties and taxes to as low as 15% for expensive or hard-to-develop oil projects, so that companies would be more willing to inves
The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and the acting president's brother, Jorge Rodríguez, told lawmakers at the start of Thursday’s debate that the bill aims to “allow an accelerated increase in production” of oil in Venezuela.
“Oil under the ground is useless,” he said, referring to the need to boost oil production and open up new exploration opportunities.
Pushed by Delcy Rodríguez, the bill is expected to advance swiftly through the ruling party-dominated legislature. Lawmakers concluded the initial discussion of the bill on Thursday after around two hours and advanced the legislation to a second round of debate, yet to be scheduled.
During the session, Orlando Camacho, a lawmaker and head of Venezuela’s national Fedeindustria business association, told the assembly that the bill would ensure that Venezuela’s oil industry “remains the engine of the country.”
The proposed legal guarantees — ensuring that foreign companies can bring claims against Venezuela before international bodies — are necessary to attract private investment, he said.
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to lure American companies to reboot Venezuela's oil sector, many remain concerned about the financial and legal risks of pouring billions of dollars into the country.
Plenty of investors have been burned before, their assets seized as Chávez nationalized parts of Venezuela’s lucrative oil industry in 2007. Firms like Exxon have been trying to get the Venezuelan government to compensate them for their billions of dollars in losses ever since, to no avail.
The current political uncertainty also worries investors. There is no timeline for holding democratic elections in Venezuela after Maduro's ouster as Rodríguez, long Maduro's loyal second in command, seeks to consolidate control. The Trump administration also hasn't said when it will lift the crippling sanctions imposed to weaken Maduro's government, which further restrict foreign operations in the country's oil sector.
https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2026/01/22/venezuela-opens-debate-on-an-oil-sector-overhaul-as-trump-seeks-role-for-us-firms/ Don’t you all have jobs to go to? Bills to pay? Or is your job like mine and involves a lot of waiting and unsupervised downtime?
>>2660163Give it up, the Yanks are pedantic nitpickers, debate addicts, melodramatic narcissists. No wonder despite having an impressive industry and being the capitalist world leader, America has not produced 5% of socialist analysis that continental Europe did in the last century.
You can be very patient and polite with them and nothing will change. The more ignorant they are, the more smug and arrogant they are.
>>2660175We already have it good? Why rock the boat?
>>2660171>>2660171I guess it might be useful to see if delcy was for this before the coup
>>2660158morality functions as a psycho-technological cultural phenomenon, a heuristic device in the teleological superorganism of various civilizations. It will always be a tool used by humans, and it shouldn't be thrown out as useless. The position marx has on "morality" is that there is no platonic "realm of second substance" where morality sits, and it should follow from that monist viewpoint, that abstractions are still real and operate through the collective material consciousness of humanity.
>>2660173I've been a NEET since 2008
>>2660181How did you make that work? Family with money? Disability benefits?
>The U.S. authorizes China to buy Venezuelan oil, but under its rules and prices
>The United States confirmed that it will allow China to continue purchasing Venezuelan oil, but no longer under the conditions that benefited chavismo for years. This decision marks another step in the direct control that Washington exerts over Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro and the establishment of an interim government led by Delcy Rodríguez.
According to Reuters, the administration of Donald Trump has made it clear that Beijing will be able to purchase Venezuelan crude only at "fair market prices," and not at the discounted rates with which the Maduro regime settled political and financial debts with China. A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that these sales will be monitored indefinitely by Washington.
According to the source cited by Reuters, although the crude will be sold in the global market, a significant portion must end up in U.S. refineries, under direct supervision of the American government.
Thanks to the decisive operation of President Trump, the people of Venezuela will receive a fair price for their oil, and not the corrupt and cheap price of the past," stated the official, in a remark that directly targets the dependency model that Caracas maintained for years with China.
The Asian giant has been the main buyer of Venezuelan crude oil for over a decade, a connection that allowed chavismo to survive sanctions, production collapses, and international isolation. Those shipments were used to pay off massive loans granted by Beijing, often at the expense of selling the oil well below market value.
Now the situation is changing. The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, recently stated that Washington receives about 45 dollars per barrel of Venezuelan oil, a figure significantly higher than the approximately 31 dollars that were received prior to Maduro's downfall, according to data cited by Reuters.
Analysts and traders in the energy sector are anticipating that Chinese imports from Venezuela will begin to decline starting in February. The reason is simple: fewer vessels are managing to leave the country since the United States formally claimed control over the sales of Venezuelan oil, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
>>2660180You miss my point. Morality exists and will always have some effect on an individual's choices, no doubt. Anon's initial comment about reading Marx was that Marxism provides a cold rational analysis of political economy and history, one which does away with the need to appeal morality.
The Marxist will still have morality in the sense that he will not kick a dog to death.
>>2660181>>2660182Kinda wanna neetmax
Or work seasonally and live at a low cost level and just relax when im not working
>>2660183dumbass TWists will tell you this is Xi cucking but they don't understand the complicated machinations of dengist theory in action
>>2660188if you read carefully the note, you'd understand it makes no sense at all. it's an absurdity, beyond the usual
A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
I'll let you figure out why it's absurd.
>>2660188Can I just stop everyone for a second and point out the elegance of Chairman Xi's solution?
>>2660190exactly. that's what i'm saying
>>2660171There is but one thing for yank socialists to do concerning Venezuela: pressure by all means possible for the release and safe return of Maduro. Throwing the arms in the air and just accepting that the US army just invaded and kidnapped him in three hours is exactly what the yank imperialists want. Yank socialists cannot allow such hooligan behaviour to be normalised. Tbf, such behaviour has been tolerated for far too long. You need to kick the table and throw a tantrum.
And fucking Zohran, I'm not asking you to become Che Guevarra and gun down Trump but ATLEAST BE VOCAL ON THE MADURO ISSUE FFS, HE IS SEQUESTTATED IN
YOUR CITY AFTER ALL
>>2660198Yeah i was hoping zohran would be more based
>>2660021They're not monarchist, but even if they were you have to consider how they got that way, right? Look at Gaza. Pic related is what happened to the entirety of North Korea in the 1950s. The US dropped more bombs on a country roughly the size of Florida than were dropped on the entirety of the European continent during WW2, and they did this only 3 years, while also burning down most village and every major metropolitan area. In the aftermath, they were sanctioned, they still are sanctioned, and they could only get help from the PRC. They had to rebuild every city, school, hospital, and power plant with conscripted labor, because they had no other choice. Is it really any surprise that they rally around the flag and the leader and hate America after going through that? It's incredibly understandable imo.
>Venezuela’s interim leader sacks Maduro ally Alex Saab as industry ministerVenezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez on Friday announced she had dismissed Alex Saab from his role as industry minister. Saab is a close ally of deposed president Nicolas Maduro and has faced accusations of acting as a front man for the former leader.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260116-venezuela-s-interim-leader-sacks-maduro-ally-alex-saab-as-industry-minister >>2660204I forgot to mention that all this happened to them after they had just gotten done throwing off the sicko Japanese who did rape of nanking and unit 731 style shit to them for decades.
>>2660183> Donald Trump has made it clear that Beijing will be able to purchase Venezuelan crude only at "fair market prices," and not at the discounted rates with which the Maduro regime how will this be enforced. Couldn't the chinese just buy it at "fair" rates and then give the venezuelans some kind of 0 percent interest loan that gets forgiven a few years later ot "make up" for the price difference? they've done shit like that before in Africa to bail countries out of their IMF debt.
>>2660021I cannot wait for a WPK General Secretary from outside the Kim family to btfo this line. You anarkiddies said the same thing about Cuba when Raul took charge.
>U.S. Establishes Fund to Control All Venezuelan Oil RevenueU.S. President Donald Trump supervises the release of funds from sales of Venezuela's oil, an official at the U.S. Administration told Semafor on Thursday
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Establishes-Fund-to-Control-All-Venezuelan-Oil-Revenue.html >>2660195it seems my point flew over your head.
>>2660199let me explain to you two morons:
>has made it clear that Beijing will be able to purchase Venezuelan crude only at "fair market prices,"this is about sanctions lifting (
did it happen though? I haven't seen ofac moving a finger in the last two weeks, let's assume it's "true")
China would never have any trouble paying for un-discounted oil, they do so, because sanctions make riskier the purchase, but they are the first government on earth advocating for the fair trade, fair market conditions.
>and not the corrupt and cheap price of the pasbased. that's literally what the Venezuelan have asked since obama's first 'unusual threat' declaration.
>Chinese imports from Venezuela will begin to decline starting in Februarywishful thinking, China's oil refinement has only increased to the point of surpassing US oil refinement capacity, as per the video shows. and it will only go up up up.
with this oil refinement capacity makes no sense for the Chinese to abandon that source of raw materials. and worst case scenario, it's the final consumer who will pay more, and since China it's the world's factory, and the EU/US have the trade imabalance with China, it's the average western person who will pay whatever price offset present.
put attention to what you read before making dumbass assing asss assessments.
>>2660212you don't even need a non-Kim WPK general secretary to disprove that anon because the actual head of the executive and legislature is not from the kim family. and being general secreatary is not the same as being a monarch anyway.
Valero, Phillips 66 Jump on Cheap Venezuela Oil
Refiners move fast as U.S. imports reopen
Valero Energy (VLO, Financial) and Phillips 66 (PSX, Financial) are wasting no time jumping back into Venezuelan crude, becoming some of the first U.S. refiners to lock in heavily discounted barrels after Washington loosened restrictions.
According to Reuters, both refiners bought a cargo each through commodity traders, taking advantage of pricing that came in roughly $8.50 to $9.50 per barrel below Brent. That kind of discount is especially attractive for refiners like Valero and Phillips 66, whose facilities are built to process heavier crude. The deals follow the Trump administration's decision to allow up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil into the U.S., a quota estimated to be worth about $2 billion.
Trading houses Vitol and Trafigura, which were among the first to receive U.S. licenses this month, played a key role in moving the oil. Earlier sales reportedly cleared at discounts closer to $15 per barrel, underscoring how aggressively Venezuelan crude is being priced to regain market share.
Cheap heavy crude can meaningfully lift refining margins, especially at complex U.S. plants. Meanwhile, Chevron (CVX, Financial) is expected to receive broader U.S. licenses, potentially reshaping who benefits most from Venezuela's return to global markets.
The first US sale of Venezuelan oil since the Trump administration illegally attacked the South American country earlier this month went to the company of a trader who donated millions to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
The roughly $250 million sale of Venezuelan crude went to Vitol, a Geneva-based energy and commodity trading firm whose US arm is headquartered in Houston. The Financial Times reported late last week that John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol, was involved in his company’s efforts to secure the deal.
Addison, who attended a recent White House meeting with other top oil executives, donated $6 million total to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign via several super PACs, including $5 million to MAGA Inc.
“Addison pledged to Trump at the [White House] event that Vitol would attain the best price possible for Venezuelan oil for the US, ‘so that the influence you have over the Venezuelans will ensure that you get what you want,’” according to the Financial Times.
Update
Where did yanqui chimp poster go?
Seeing such vitriol warms my heart.
>>2660226wait… that WASN'T you? kek
>>2660226he was replaced by the western media psyop poster.
>The son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has been released from prison in the South American country.
The release of Rafael Tudares Bracho on Thursday comes as the government of interim President Delcy Rodriguez gradually reduces the number of political prisoners held in Venezuela’s prisons.
The move has been widely seen as a concession to the administration of United States President Donald Trump, which has kept military assets deployed off the country’s coast and threatened Venezuelan officials if they do not comply with US demands.
Rodriguez was sworn into office shortly after Trump authorised the abduction of her predecessor, former President Nicolas Maduro, on January 3. Members of the opposition coalition expressed joy at the news of Tudares Bracho’s release.
“After 380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention — having endured more than a year of the inhumane reality of enforced disappearance — my husband Rafael Tudares Bracho returned home this morning,” Edmundo Gonzalez’s daughter, Mariana Gonzalez, wrote on the social media platform X.
“It has been a stoic and profoundly difficult struggle.”
there is a venezuela news thread yknow
ice ice agents
>>2660214>vidah so, they HAVE to sell to china because they have greater oil refinery capacity than america at this point and it's only going to get more dire. lol so it's right back to the maduro status quo even though they kidnapped him. amazing.
>>2660233venezuela overlaps with usapol because monroe doctrine and the recent kidnapping of maduro
>>2660173>Or is your job like mine and involves a lot of waiting and unsupervised downtime?🤫🤫🤫
can we talk about building communism yet or is this thread still just for reacting to current events
>>2660239Wrong, communism is already being built in China, DPRK and France and we talk about these countries
>>2660204Except that there were other countries like Vietnam and Cambodia that were also bombed to the stone age and they continue to have neutral to good relations with the US. So your narrative doesn't really pan out.
>>2660214Damn china is gonna lap the U.S when it comes to energy and production. Nobody from the natsec state tried to prevent all this offshoring? No general tried telling Nixon that offshoring all industrial capacity to an ideological opponent was stupid idea?
>U.S State Dept official confirms 'limited' diplomatic team in Caracas to restore US-Venezuela relations
A "limited number" of U.S. personnel are operating in Caracas as Washington looks to resume diplomatic relations with Venezuela after the historic capture of Nicolás Maduro, Fox News has learned.
A senior State Department official told Fox News that the Trump administration plan to resume official diplomacy with Venezuela is under way. This is the first time a State Department official has commented on reporting about the diplomatic team on the ground.
"A limited number of U.S. diplomatic and technical personnel are in Caracas conducting initial assessments for a potential phased resumption of operations," the official said.
The official did not specify exactly what "a limited number" meant, and it is not immediately clear exactly how many people are on the ground. The phased resumption of operations would include the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy and consulate offices in Venezuela.
On Jan. 15, Rodriguez, who was sworn-in as Venezuela's interim president following the capture of Maduro, met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe. A U.S. official told CBS News that the purpose of the meeting was to "deliver the message that the United States looks forward to an improved working relationship."
Rodriguez's meeting with Ratcliffe took place one day after she had a phone call with Trump, who said the conversation was "very good."
The United States has named a two-time U.S. ambassador as its top envoy for Venezuela, according to the U.S. embassy in Caracas website, APA reports citing Reuters.
>>2660242but I want Communism in my own backyard
>>2660226You call everybody that so you gotta be more specific
>>26602391. The effects of American imperialism will be discussed in the American thread.
2. All posts are visible. You can enlighten us on 'building communism' while Venezuela events are posted. Other anons will choose whatever topic they want to engage with. Everybody else does not have to stop posting and leave the floor to you.
So great Zohranist-Plattnerist, how will you shityanks build communism?
>>2660247I was talking about the guy calling you 'yanqui chimp' earlier in this thread.
>US oil companies will start drilling for oil in Venezuela in the near future, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
"We're going to start drilling very soon," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, DC from Davos, Switzerland.
The US has "the biggest" companies in the world, he said.
"We have them, and they're going to be going in. They're all negotiating right now," he added
There’s no American proletariat, so it can’t be overthrown from within, nukes and two massive oceans means it cannot be overthrown from without, the American status quo is invincible, even if it loses the empire it will still be all labor aristos and still fuck latin America over, there’s nothing to be done
>Halliburton Prepares to Quickly Re-Enter Venezuelan Market
Halliburton HAL 4.69%increase; green up pointing triangle Chief Executive Jeff Miller expressed confidence that the oilfield-services company could quickly ramp up its business in Venezuela.
>>2660246You don’t deserve it
>>2660252>>2660256So its looks like delcy is a traitor what happens next?
Theres still bolivarian forces.ik the country
I remeber 6-7 years ago most yank communist talk online was wanking over Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Lazy fucks wanted the FALC goodness without daring to discuss how to get there.
>Trump says Rodriguez 'showing strong leadership' in Venezuela
>Delcy's shown very strong leadership so far, I have to say. I am very happy with what she has done so far. We're moving in to the United States millions of barrels of oil as we speak," Trump told reporters when asked whether he'd let Rodriguez remain in power.
>"Venezuela's going to do better than they've ever done," he stressed.
>>2660250I haven’t been here for like 36 hours
>>2660262I have a faint hope some how this is 3d go and delcy
Going to defest american imperialism with her mind but having it written down makes it seems even more ridiculous
>U.S Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced plans to visit Venezuela in the coming weeks, signaling a potential thaw in US engagement with the oil-rich nation
>Speaking Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wright told Bloomberg Television’s Annmarie Hordern that he intends to travel to Caracas soon to assess the country’s oil infrastructure and meet with officials, including acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
>“We will move OFAC approvals for anyone who wants to go down there,” Wright said, referring to the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces sanctions on Venezuela. The comment suggests the Trump administration is prepared to expedite licenses for US companies or individuals interested in pursuing opportunities in Venezuela’s energy sector.
The remarks come amid broader US efforts to reshape involvement in Venezuela’s oil industry following President Trump’s push to control and market Venezuelan crude supplies. Wright has previously outlined plans for the US to handle sales of Venezuelan oil — including stored volumes estimated at 30-50 million barrels — with proceeds directed toward benefiting the Venezuelan people while maintaining leverage for political changes.
The potential trip and eased approvals could encourage greater American private sector participation in revitalizing Venezuela’s dilapidated oil production, which has been hampered by years of sanctions, mismanagement, and political instability. Wright has described significant interest from US oil executives in returning to the country, with some projections suggesting output could rise substantially in the short to medium term.
>>2660261They grew up, got careers, and realized that communism wouldn’t be in their class interests anyway, it was all resentment toward their first boss
>>2660081Wrong. Communist Korea is not "hereditary monarchy." The leadership of Workers' Party of Korea is determined by democratic and is consolidation of the continuity of revolution.
>>26602431. they weren't sanctioned for 70 years straight like north korea
2. vietnamese reunification wasn't prevented like it was in Korea
3. Americans didn't continue to occupy South Vietnam for 70 years straight like they did with South Korea
4. North Korea didn't have an incentive to develop "friendly" (read: pragmatic) relations with the US like Vietnam did.
5. Vietnam was bombed to smithereens, but not to anywhere near the same extent North Korea was. I am not exaggerating when I say literally every major city was leveled to the ground, along with sanitation and electrical infrastructure, schools and hospitals.
>>2660279Juche is ad hoc nonsense they came up with to stay neutral during the Sino Soviet split, it’s ideological cowardice
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is discussing investing in natural gas projects in Venezuela with another international producer, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The talks are preliminary.
If Adnoc did enter Venezuela, it would likely endear the UAE to Trump.
>>2660282Gaullism is French dengism
>>2660281>>2660272>with some projections suggesting output could rise substantially in the short to medium term.If this is true then i was wrong about earlier in the thread the us empire actually expects to profit off this, instead of it being some long term goal
.>>2660280
I mean why pick a side china is their biggest trade partner but also on some bulshit
>>2660281you personally disliking juche as an application of marxism-leninism to the conditions of the DPRK doesn't prove they're, quote,
< the most hilarious example of overdosing so hard on being anti-American you accept reverting into absolute monarchy just to maintain it.which is how the whole conversation about North Korea ITT started.
<Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country. The same applies to the experience of the fraternal parties. It will prove valuable to us only when we make a study of it, grasp its essence and properly apply it to our realities. Instead, if we just gulp it down and spoil our work, it will not only harm our work but also lead to discrediting the valuable experience of the fraternal parties.Kim Il Sung, On eliminating dogmatism and formalism and establishing Juche in ideological work, Speech to Party Propagandists and Agitators December 28, 1955
>Venezuela Looks To Petrodollars To Bring Down Prices
The United States' grab for Venezuela's oil, while shocking, may yet provide a short-term boost for the South American nation's haggard economy.
This week, interim President Delcy Rodriguez said her country had received $300 million from Washington's sale of Venezuelan crude – money used to prop up the ailing local currency, the bolivar.
The dollars were injected into the domestic foreign exchange market to narrow a growing gap between the formal and informal rates, blamed for fast-rising inflation.
The mere anticipation of the injection reduced the gap.
Analysts believe the injection was a good step toward stabilizing the economy but long-term improvement will require a reliable supply of dollars.
Without it, Venezuela will soon "end up with another significant depreciation of its currency," said Alejandro Grisanti of the consulting firm Ecoanalitica.
In the longer term, he added, responsible fiscal policy, not exchange rate intervention, is the only solution to high inflation.
Venezuela's parliament on Thursday started debating plans, proposed by Rodriguez, to throw open the lucrative but nationalized oil sector to private investment after the US military ouster of longtime socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela decriminalized the use of the dollar and lifted controls to combat a hyperinflationary cycle that lasted from 2017 to 2022.
Since then, the government, under the economic leadership of Maduro's then–Vice President Rodriguez, began injecting petrodollars into the market whenever they were available.
This became more difficult under a blockade of Venezuelan oil by the United States, which in recent months seized several tankers transporting crude from the South American nation.
After Maduro's January 3 toppling, President Donald Trump said Washington was "in charge" of Venezuela, adding Rodriguez would be "turning over" millions of barrels of oil to be sold at market price.
"That money will be controlled by me," Trump added
Now Rodriguez, acting as president with a government made up of Maduro cronies, is once again looking at the dollar to try and stabilize the Venezuelan economy, which shrunk by 80 percent in a decade.
On Tuesday, she said revenues from the US sale of Venezuelan crude will be used to "protect against the negative impact of swings in the foreign exchange market."
Prices in Venezuela are set in dollars, but many people pay with the weak bolivar – taking advantage of the difference between the official and black-market exchange rate to pay less in real dollar value.
The dollar rose on the black market to over 900 bolivars shortly after the January 3 bombing raid that saw Maduro whisked away, blindfolded and cuffed, to stand trial in New York.
By Tuesday, it was half that, and the head of Venezuela's parliament – Rodriguez's brother Jorge Rodriguez – urged businesses to adjust their prices.
For ordinary Venezuelans, change cannot come soon enough.
The minimum wage is not even $0.40 per month – that is 40 US cents – the same as the state pension.
The government hands out discretionary bonuses as a supplement, but it is not enough.
"Every month pensioners have to decide whether to die from hunger or from illness," union leader Josefina Guerra told AFP of the economic situation, with medicine also hard to come by.
Labor organizations demanded on Monday that oil revenues be used to improve Venezuelans’ incomes and boost pensions.
"Prices have entered a terrible inflationary process. You can see it especially in meat," said Rafael Labrador, a 73-year-old lawyer
>>2660283Earlier in the thread someone posted that the uae had contacts with delcy
Her sellingbout looks more likely
>>2660286but they haven't had a successful proletarian revolution yet and a communist party doesn't govern. That's the difference.
>>2660296The French communists are colonial wreckers who are dishonest in the same way American “leftists” are, they believe French proles had the right to settle and displace Algerians and extract resources from vietnam
>>2660297I was arguing against the other anon's idea that "Gaullism" is "Dengism" and therefore "communist." please direct your French-attacking comments towards actual French-defending anons.
>>2660260Wrong. You spread imperialist lies. Delcy jailed and executed thousands of compradors. Blood has already been paid. That is why she pushes for peace and prosperity.
>>2660299I am that anon, gaullism is french dengism and the PCF are colonialist and awful, worse than Gaullists who are at least honest in their racism and imperialism
>>2660294>uae had contacts with delcyan OPEC country has contacts with an OPEC country? the guts of Venezuela 🤣
you people need to take a notch.
>>2660301Why did Hugo Chavez hate her and tried to purge her then?
>>2660301The oil companies are moving in i want to believe shes legit but this news is making it hard
>Venezuela’s new leader calls for opening oil industry to foreign investment and warmer US ties
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez used her first state of the union message Thursday to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign investment following the Trump administration’s pledge to seize control of Venezuelan crude sales.
For the first time, Rodríguez laid out a vision for Venezuela’s new political reality — one that challenges her government’s most deeply rooted beliefs less than two weeks after the United States captured and toppled former President Nicolás Maduro.
Under pressure from the U.S. to cooperate with its plans for reshaping Venezuela’s sanctioned oil industry, Maduro’s former vice president declared that a “new policy is being formed in Venezuela.”
She urged the foreign diplomats in attendance to tell investors abroad about the changes and called on lawmakers to approve oil sector reforms that would secure foreign firms’ access to Venezuela’s vast reserves
“Venezuela, in free trade relations with the world, can sell the products of its energy industry,” she said.
The Trump administration has said it plans to control future oil export revenues to ensure it benefits the Venezuelan peopl
In that vein, Rodríguez described cash from the oil sales flowing into two sovereign wealth funds, one to support crisis-stricken health services and another to bolster public infrastructure, much of which was built under Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, and has since deteriorated.
These days the country’s hospitals are so poorly equipped that patients are asked to provide supplies needed for their care, from syringes to surgical screws.
While Rodríguez criticized the U.S. capture of Maduro and referred to a “stain on our relations,” she also promoted the resumption of diplomacy between the historic adversaries. Her succinct, 44-minute speech and mollifying tone marked a dramatic contrast to her predecessors’ fiery rants against U.S. imperialism that often went on for hours.
“Let us not be afraid of diplomacy,” Rodriguez. “I ask that politics not be transformed, that it not begin with hatred and intolerance.”
The day before, she gave a 4-minute briefing to the media to say her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro’s harsh rule.
New: The Trump administration is preparing to use private military contractors to protect oil & energy assets in Venezuela rather than deploying US troops, sources tell us, setting up a potential boon for security firms w/ experience in region & ties to POTUS.
Some familiar names already being floated … including former Blackwater founder Erik Prince
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-private-contractors-venezuela-oil>>2660305the companies are 'moving in' because trump's EO 14373, which obscures oil transactions in Venezuela.
Venezuela is not obliged to sell oil to the US in none of the documents, thus I'd say the deals are better than going through the US sanction circumvention routine.
>With Maduro in U.S. custody, his lieutenants warm to Trump
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, a U.S. official said.
Two countries with leaders of sharply different ideologies are moving toward the creation of a neo-colony here in South America, with Washington holding the purse strings (and all the cards). The Venezuelans, whether motivated by the threat of more U.S. force or an assessment that a diplomatic reset with their longtime nemesis to the north is now the best — if not only — course, are moving quickly to reestablish formal ties while working on legislation that could grease American investment in the key oil sector.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with interim president Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Thursday “to deliver the message that the United States looks forward to an improved working relationship,” a U.S. official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the CIA director’s travels, which are not ordinarily made public.
Ratcliffe is the most senior U.S. official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Special Forces captured Maduro and his wife on Jan. 3. While he was in Venezuela, President Donald Trump was meeting at the White House with opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace laureate. Trump has indicated he does not believe Machado and her pro-democracy movement are capable of running Venezuela.
During the two-hour meeting, the U.S. official said, “Director Ratcliffe discussed potential opportunities for economic collaboration and that Venezuela can no longer be a safe haven for America’s adversaries, especially narco traffickers.”
Trump, who until Maduro’s capture condemned his authoritarian regime, hailed Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president and now Venezuela’s interim leader, as a “terrific woman” after they spoke Wednesday. Cast aside has been Machado — a “nice woman,” Trump said this month, but who “lacks support” and is “not respected.”
Machado, who previously called for the criminal prosecution of the people with whom Trump’s administration is now working, presented him with her Nobel medal during their private meeting Thursday. Meanwhile, a senior Rodríguez emissary — Félix Plasencia, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Kingdom — was visiting Washington for high-level talks.
Rodríguez, using language that would have been shocking before Maduro’s capture, called this week for a new political era. Her government’s release of some political prisoners, she said, should make clear that Venezuela aims to “allow understanding” and embraces a “political and ideological diversity.” She was seeking energy cooperation with the U.S., she said Thursday, “based on decency, dignity and independence.”
A second former U.S. official said the regime’s release in recent days of American detainees and some political prisoners “is a sign that there isn’t a lot of leveraging going on.”
“Those are two things that traditionally in the past would’ve been a part of a very intense quid pro quo negotiation,” the former official said. “The fact that these things might be happening without that kind of quid pro quo signals to me that the regime is pretty shell-shocked by what happened.”
The Trump administration this week brokered its first sale of Venezuelan oil for about $500 million, which was deposited into a trust in Qatar, according to people in Venezuela’s oil industry. Officials appear to be laying plans to funnel that money indirectly toward the Venezuelan economy, according to Venezuelan economists and business leaders familiar with the discussions.
Three hundred million dollars is expected to be sold to the four largest private banks in Venezuela, economic analyst Alejandro Grisanti said. The banks would then auction off the foreign currency and direct the proceeds to the economy, prioritizing food and medical sectors. The Central Bank of Venezuela will receive the bolivars generated by these auctions and may use them only to pay salaries and employee benefits.
“It is a fundamental measure for maintaining economic stability in Venezuela,” Grisanti said. “It proves that there is good coordination between the United States and Venezuela to take swift action.”
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the U.S. would control the sale of “all of their oil and natural gas.” The proceeds will be directed first to U.S.-controlled accounts at globally recognized banks, an administration official said, to guarantee the legitimacy and integrity of their distribution.
Talks are underway in Venezuela about allowing the dollar to flow freely in the economy, one business leader here said. Rodríguez, as vice president, supported the idea internally, the person said; others in the regime argued it “would mean putting ourselves in the hands of the U.S.”
The U.S. blockade of Venezuelan oil meant that crude filled tankers and storage facilities, leaving little room for more. The regime is now looking to oil traders authorized by the Trump administration to move the undelivered crude urgently. If the glut forces the shutdown of oil fields, they will be costly to restart.
The new setup could be a boon for a sector that has struggled in the vise of U.S. sanctions and Trump’s blockade.
“They are avoiding a certain sort of collapse of the economy in exchange for something that is uncertain,” he said, but has upsides in that oil proceeds of sales will no longer be black money that needs to be laundered or hidden.
U.S. sanctions have prevented U.S. companies from doing business here without special licenses. The regime now wants the administration to approve more licenses, to get cash flowing in the economy and show that the shift toward the United States has a payoff.
Some oil revenue could be used to fund government contracts for U.S. companies to rebuild Venezuela’s blackout-plagued electricity grid, according to two people familiar with the talks. Rodríguez officials are also discussing U.S. investment in other sectors, including mining, they said.
Internally, the regime is discussing laws that could reduce curbs on foreign investment and offer new legal rights and protections to encourage reluctant American firms.
That’s a radical departure from Chávez, who, after his reelection in 2006, declared the United States “the biggest menace to our planet.”
Maduro, who took control of the regime on Chávez’s death in 2013, called repeatedly for better relations. But having claimed reelection in three elections viewed as fraudulent — a Washington Post review of tally sheets from the 2024 contest showed that Machado’s candidate is likely to have won more than two-thirds of the vote — he was seen by the administration as too toxic.
Former Chavista lawmaker Maria Alejandra Díaz, a constitutional lawyer, said the new relationship, and the possibility that the administration will try to impose it elsewhere in Latin America, is both surprising and worrying. “We don’t know if it’s out of fear or because it was already part of a plan,” she said.
If there’s one thing Chávez ensured, she said, “it was the independent and sovereign management of our resources. … He would be turning over in his grave.”
- WASHINGTON POST
On January 16, the government of Venezuela, led by Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, submitted a bill to the National Assembly proposing a partial reform of the Organic Law of Hydrocarbons. The aim is to attract investment to the oil sector, particularly in areas lacking infrastructure or remaining undeveloped.
"We brought the hydrocarbons law reform bill to incorporate the production models that exist in the Anti-Blockade Law so that investment flows can be included and our hydrocarbons can be protected," Rodríguez was quoted as saying by Venezuelan daily Ultimas Noticias.
She added that the changes would allow those investment flows to be applied to new fields or fields that have not been developed due to a lack of infrastructure.
The proposal comes as the administration of President Donald Trump has expressed interest in reactivating Venezuela's oil sector and encouraging investment by major U.S. companies after years of stagnation, sanctions and legal restrictions.
Addressing lawmakers, senior military officials, representatives of Venezuela's branches of government and relatives of Maduro including detained lawmaker Flores, Rodríguez defended the energy agreement with the Trump administration as part of what she described as Venezuela's historic trade relationship with the United States and urged officials not to fear contradictions, according to digital outlet Efecto Cocuyo.
Current law requires state oil company PDVSA to hold a majority stake in all joint ventures with foreign partners. The reform could introduce more flexible arrangements for foreign investors, though specific details have not been disclosed.
>>2660312>>2660312buddy, you are in the wrong thread, and I already told you that's not true
>>2647858 6 days ago already, but here another update. people who is from Venezuela 100% uses VPNs. Including Venezuelan officials.
The Chavista bourgeois completely betrayed their country and their political project
Trump: The jails are emptied out from Venezuela and now I like Venezuela very much. I think it is a wonderful country. It is so much different. It has changed so much in literally a week.
Trump on Venezuela: 50 million barrels of oil… I said, we will take it. I didn't consult with anyone. I didn’t have to call up our great attorney general.
>>2660302>I am that anon, gaullism is french dengismno it isn't, because even if you regard Dengism as some kind of right deviation, it is in the context of a post-revolutionary situation. France does not have that.
>>2660280>1. they weren't sanctioned for 70 years straight like north koreaThat really didn't matter until the 1990s, when the USSR collapsed as a trading partner and China distanced itself
>2. vietnamese reunification wasn't prevented like it was in KoreaYeah, no shit. South Korea was a stable puppet state that didn't need an overwhelming military occupation while South Vietnam wasn't. That is an apple and oranges comparison.
>3. Americans didn't continue to occupy South Vietnam for 70 years straight like they did with South KoreaThe American occupation in Korea and Japan is a token force that cannot conquer the country if they were to kick them out. As anticommunist states they continue to desire a military presence. It is hardly a military occupation.
>5. Vietnam was bombed to smithereens, but not to anywhere near the same extent North Korea was. I am not exaggerating when I say literally every major city was leveled to the ground, along with sanitation and electrical infrastructure, schools and hospitals.That is because Vietnam was already at a lower stage of development. North Korea was already developed because it was the region of Korea that the Japanese had invested the most into heavy industry and mining due to its geographical characteristics. North Vietnam absolutely was bombed to high heaven like North Korea, you are just ignorant. And North Korea had already recovered economically by the 1960s due to developmental aid from its socialist patrons.
>4. North Korea didn't have an incentive to develop "friendly" (read: pragmatic) relations with the US like Vietnam did.They absolutely did since the 1990s, and they accepted a lot of US food aid in the 1990s when dealing with their massive famines. They also let the South Koreans establish their industrial zone North of the DMZ, so it's not like they are entirely opposed to opening trade when it's convenient. As a rule, NK apologism is retarded and its advocates are just deluded idiots or a couple of NK paid shills who post from Pyong Yang for pennies on the dollar.
>>2660319France has been in a post revolutionary situation since 1789
Trump on Venezuela: We have had a great relationship with the people that are currently leading. Delcy has been great
>>2660320so do you agree with the anon who called DPRK monarchist or not
>>2660321proletarian revolution not bourgeois revolution
>Trump Wants to Stop Foreign Drug Trafficking. A Rebel Group Stands in the Way.>President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is taking a harder line against the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a leftist group experts call a powerful drug trafficker in Colombia and Venezuela.Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, a stalwart leftist, has promised to achieve peace settlements with armed groups that have kept the country in a near-constant state of conflict for more than half a century.
But now Mr. Petro is threatening military action, alongside Venezuela, against the largest of those groups, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a one-time revolutionary guerrilla group that experts say has become a major cocaine trafficker with a deep foothold in Venezuela.
“If the ELN does not join the peace process by leaving Venezuela, there will be joint military actions with Venezuela,” Mr. Petro wrote on X on Monday.
This week, the ELN proposed a nationwide “agreement” with the government, an offer Mr. Petro rebuffed. “An agreement was offered, and the ELN destroyed it with blood and fire,” he wrote on X.
He called instead for ELN fighters in Venezuela to disarm, return to Colombia, and begin a process to cede territory and reintegrate into society — or face military action.
“The order I gave was a total offensive against the ELN in Catatumbo,” Mr. Petro said in an interview with The Times.
After Mr. Maduro’s capture, Mr. Petro also announced the deployment of 30,000 troops to his country’s 1,300-mile border with Venezuela. “The first order I gave was not to defend Venezuela or anything like that,” he said, alluding to claims he was in league with Mr. Maduro. Instead, Mr. Petro said, he ordered ELN fighters to “disarm and re-enter Colombia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/americas/trump-petro-colombia-eln-cocaine.html >>2660324France doesn’t have a proletariat for there to be a revolution in the first place
Exclusive: US moving fast to expand Chevron's Venezuela license, Energy Secretary Wright tells Reuters
WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. is moving as fast as it can to grant Chevron an expanded license for its oil production in Venezuela, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Reuters on Friday.
The U.S. plans to let Chevron pay the Venezuelan government with cash instead of crude in kind, which will let the company sell all the oil it produces in the country, Wright said.
>Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez consolidates power after Maduro ouster - Bloomberg In Venezuela, much of the choreography of power looks just as it did before Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. Special Forces.
Delcy Rodriguez, his longtime deputy, has seamlessly moved into the role of acting president. She has chaired meetings with senior officials, greeted international envoys, welcomed the press at Miraflores Palace and met privately with diplomats.
But beneath the continuity, the bedrock of Chavismo — Venezuela’s brand of socialism — is beginning to shift as Rodriguez quickly moves to consolidate authority and unite the fractured ruling coalition.
There are some subtle changes. Rodriguez’s days start earlier, her public remarks are far more concise and the marathon speeches that defined Maduro’s rule are gone. Public officials are now allowed back on X.
Other moves are far more consequential, including a reshaping of the Cabinet and security apparatus and the release of dozens of political prisoners. Decisions on senior personnel are being received positively by the Trump administration, according to one person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing sensitive deliberations.
Venezuela’s information ministry and the U.S. State Department didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
"She’s walking a tightrope, trying to please the U.S. at the same time as trying to keep Chavismo together,” said David Smilde, a professor and Venezuela expert at Tulane University. "So far she’s succeeded” and President Donald Trump "seems quite happy.”
Public signals of support have followed. On Tuesday, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, the ousted president’s son and a sitting lawmaker, told government supporters in Caracas he had received messages from his father and stepmother, Cilia Flores, expressing confidence in Rodriguez and the team now leading the country.
Supporters at another demonstration Wednesday chanted: "Delcy, go ahead, you have our confidence.” The slogan has been repeated in a state television advertisement showing an animated image of Rodriguez.
Just three days after Maduro was captured, Rodriguez elevated central bank chief Calixto Ortega Sánchez to vice president of the economy ministry, a more powerful position coordinating the government’s broader economic strategy across multiple ministries. She also named Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez, a former interior minister, to lead the Presidential Honor Guard, replacing Javier Marcano Tabata, after internal criticism that the unit failed to prevent Maduro’s arrest.
Rodriguez appointed lawmaker Juan Escalona, a close Maduro ally, as minister of the presidency and government management oversight. It’s a crucial role that acts as the president’s principal link across the executive branch and helps drive policy implementation. Escalona replaces Anibal Coronado, who was first shifted to the environment portfolio and then reassigned on Friday to the transportation ministry.
Also on Friday, Rodriguez appointed former Information Minister Freddy Nanez to the environment ministry, with journalist Miguel Perez Pirela taking over his previous role.
Further changes are expected, people familiar with her plans said. Posts at state energy company Petroleos de Venezuela SA and the oil ministry are under review, the people said. Rodriguez continues to simultaneously serve as oil minister.
She’s also expected to bring back longtime allies to key roles. Felix Plasencia, who attended a Friday meeting with Trump officials in Washington, is being considered for foreign minister or Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.S. as the relationship between both countries improves, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
Two influential but low-profile economists from Ecuador, Patricio Rivera and Fausto Herrera, who have been advising Rodriguez since at least 2019, are also playing key roles in the interim government, the people said. The men, who are key liasons for creditors and investors, both previously worked for their country’s former president, Maduro’s fellow socialist Rafael Correa.
Rodriguez is also expected to sideline figures with whom she has long clashed, the people said. On Friday evening, she announced Luis Antonio Villegas would take over the newly merged production and commerce ministries, replacing Colombian businessman and Maduro confidant Alex Saab.
Once the situation stabilizes, changes to the armed forces could follow. Speculation over Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino’s possible retirement has resurfaced since Maduro’s removal, raising the prospect of further shakeups among the highest ranks of the military. The U.S. has posted a $15 million reward for information leading to Padrino’s arrest or capture.
For now, Rodriguez publicizes her meetings with Padrino, saying they’re discussing plans "to continue preserving peace” and thanking the armed forces for their "commitment to defending Venezuela’s calm and stability.”
The political shifts are unfolding as the government continues to free prisoners in a process celebrated by Trump. Both Rodriguez and her brother, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, said earlier this week that the releases will continue, led by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.
By Wednesday, 406 people had been released, including 194 freed in December under Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez said. Of the nearly 200 expected to be released this month, independent organizations have so far confirmed only about half, including U.S. citizens and other foreigners. Cabello has personally handed over several high-profile international prisoners, according to one of the people.
Rodriguez and Cabello have long had a tense relationship, but the two have appeared aligned in private meetings, the people said. Cabello publicly pledged loyalty to Rodriguez early on, and has often appeared together with the acting president and her brother in a show of unity.
Cabello, a hard-line Chavista power broker, appears to have tightened his personal security. His two television programs since the U.S. raid were recorded outside their usual studio, and state television has delayed broadcasts of some of his news conferences, steps the ousted president himself took in the months before his capture. The U.S. has put a $25 million bounty on Cabello.
Behind the scenes, party leaders were given clear instructions.
"Unity is the first thing that must be preserved,” some officials were told during a private meeting held days after Maduro’s capture, according to a leaked memo seen by Bloomberg News.
So far, that message has shaped the image Rodriguez’s government is projecting.
She’s "trying to prioritize unity over change,” Smilde, the Tulane professor, said.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/17/world/politics/venezuela-rodriguez-consolidates-power/update
>>2660323It's a hereditary dictatorship. There are many many 19th and 20th century dictatorships that have the trappings of a constitutional state, but are just family affairs. See, the Somozas in Nicaragua, the Assads in Syria.
>Venezuela Moves to Resume Dollar Sales, Halting Bolivar Rout
Venezuela is preparing to resume sales of dollars, bringing relief to its battered currency after a US oil blockade riled the local foreign-exchange market.
Venezuela is preparing to resume sales of dollars, bringing relief to its battered currency after a US oil blockade riled the local foreign-exchange market.
Banks in Caracas contacted corporate clients this week to offer the first significant supply of dollars from the government since mid-December, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly
The banks are collecting bids, though no funds had been disbursed as of Thursday, one of the people said.
The move follows the Trump administration’s authorization of two of the world’s largest commodities traders to sell Venezuelan oil. That revived hopes that some proceeds could reach the parched foreign-exchange market, helping stabilize the bolivar after weeks of gyrations.
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Speaking to a group of business representatives later on Friday, Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez said that the proceeds from oil sales will be sent through the central bank to private financial institutions to supply the foreign exchange market.
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“Our concern is that foreign currency should drive the national economy to guarantee Venezuela’s full productive capacity. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past,” she said.
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Alejandro Grisanti, a director at local consultancy Ecoanalitica, said the funds are coming from a trust set up in Qatar to receive oil-sale proceeds. The move helps stave off a potential extreme depreciation in the exchange rate, which “would have left us on the verge of a new hyperinflation,” he said.
The bolivar stabilized in parallel trading on Friday at below 500 per dollar, according to prices posted on crypto trading platforms.
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It had swung wildly since the US military began blocking oil exports, which dried up dollar supply and sapped the government of its principal source of foreign earnings.
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The situation worsened after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, with the bolivar weakening more than 20% to around 800 per dollar at one point, stoking fears of another currency crisis.
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In addition to authorizing some trading of Venezuelan oil, Trump met with oil companies to discuss potential investment in the nation’s energy industry. On Thursday, acting President Delcy Rodriguez presented a reform to the nation’s energy laws and announced the creation of two funds into which dollars from oil sales will be funneled
-BLOOMBERG
Venezuela has signed its first contract to export liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Friday.
“Today, for the first time in our history, a contract for the marketing of LPG, of gas, has been signed,” Rodríguez said from an event aired on State TV. “We are delivering on our promise to President Maduro and to our people.”
Venezuela produces LPG at its José refining complex in eastern Venezuela. Output has fallen in recent years because of disinvestment and frequent accidents, contributing to shortages that have hit households across the country.
Much of Venezuela's gas supply is associated gas, produced alongside oil. Some companies already operate projects to use that fuel, but most of it is currently flared.
Expanding gas exports would require political coordination with the US following the capture of Nicolas Maduro by President Donald Trump's administration.
The move comes as Rodríguez seeks to recast Venezuela as open for foreign investment, loosening long-held restrictions on the energy sector as her government adapts to a new political reality after Nicolas Maduro's ouster
-bloomberg
this guys posted 16 articles about venezuela in 20 minutes
>>2660332To shut the retards up
>>2660303This is just cope after cope now coming from the multipolar YouTubers and bloggers.
i wonder if leftypol had been around in the 80s, there would be people still saying trust gorbachev's plan! the CPSU is still in control! The KGB still has hardliners in power!
>>2660332for me I'm usually relieved when there's news spam in this thread like a palette cleanser from the typical shit flinging
Jan 13 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state energy company PDVSA has begun reversing oil production cuts made under a strict U.S. oil embargo as crude exports resume under U.S. supervision, three sources close to operations said on Tuesday.
The OPEC member's oil exports fell close to zero in the weeks after the United States imposed a blockade on oil shipments in December, with only U.S. oil major Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab exporting crude from its joint ventures with PDVSA under U.S. license.
The embargo left millions of barrels stuck in onshore tanks and vessels. As storage filled, PDVSA was forced to shut wells and order oil production cuts at joint ventures in the country.
The state company is now instructing the joint ventures to resume output from well clusters that were shut as a third oil tanker set sail from Venezuela's coast on Tuesday.
The mood at many of PDVSA's offices and operational sites has rapidly changed since the company said it was progressing in negotiations with the U.S. that are expected to bring much-needed investment into oilfields and facilities, the sources said.
>>2660332At least it isn't a bunch of faggot shit about Fuentes or Laura Loomer as usual, I'd rather hear about Venezuela than a bunch of faggot streamers.
>>2660306>>2660304Hugo Chavez despised delcy Rodriguez
https://apnews.com/article/delcy-rodriguez-maduro-trump-venezuela-e71f2289bc801446e05550d8f900a8d1Years later, while Jorge Rodríguez was a top electoral official under Chávez, he secured for his sister a position in the president’s office.
But she advanced slowly at first and clashed with colleagues who viewed her as a haughty know-it-all.
In 2006, on a whirlwind international tour, Chávez booted her from the presidential plane and ordered her to fly home from Moscow on her own, according to two former officials who were on the trip. Chávez was upset because the delegation’s schedule of meetings had fallen apart and that triggered a feud with Rodriguez, who was responsible for the agenda.
“It was painful to watch how Chávez talked about her,” said one of the former officials. “He would never say a bad thing about women but the whole flight home he kept saying she was conceited, arrogant, incompetent.”
Days later, she was fired and never occupied another high-profile role with Chávez.
>>2660339Say it loud and say it proud
JURY NULLIFICATION >Venezuela's proposed oil reform to give autonomy to companies to operate, cash sales -documentsJan 22 (Reuters) - A profound proposed reform of Venezuela's hydrocarbons law would allow foreign and local companies to operate oilfields on their own through a new contract model, commercialize output and receive sale proceeds even if acting as minority partners of state company PDVSA, drafts seen by Reuters on Thursday showed.
Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez last week submitted the reform proposal, expected to deeply modify the backbone of the OPEC country's oil industry by changing late President Hugo Chavez's landmark oil law, to the National Assembly.
Lawmakers are scheduled to begin its discussion on Thursday, following a flagship 50-million-barrel oil supply deal between Caracas and Washington this month, agreed after the U.S. capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
Oil executives and potential investors as part of Washington's ambitious $100 billion reconstruction plan for Venezuela's energy industry are demanding autonomy to produce, export and cash sale proceeds in the country after Chavez's nationalizations and assets expropriations two decades ago.
The proposal would allow the government to adjust royalties down to 15%, from a current rate of 33%, for special projects and those requiring massive investments. It also adds the possibility of resorting to independent arbitration to solve controversies.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuelas-proposed-oil-reform-autonomy-155707231.html donald strife trump got the geostigma
>>2660347If the yank-in-chief is reading what I write here, I'm never getting a visa to visit the shityankland
>Russia offered Maduro asylum via Vatican before US capture
Russia presented a formal proposal to the United States through Vatican mediation to facilitate Nicolás Maduro's departure from Venezuela in the months leading up to the military operation that resulted in his capture, according to diplomatic sources cited by Spanish outlet ABC.
The initiative, reportedly channelled through Cardinal Pietro Parolin, offered Maduro political asylum and personal security guarantees in Russian territory under the direct backing of President Vladimir Putin, the sources said. The proposal also extended to other senior officials in the former Venezuelan leader's administration.
Moscow's objective was to prevent US military intervention, contain regional instability and preserve dialogue channels with the Trump administration on other strategic matters including the Ukraine war, according to the sources.
The offer recalled the one given to former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, another close Kremlin ally who was granted asylum in Russia after his toppling in December 2024 but now lives in isolation, cut off from external communication and effectively confined despite his formal protection.
However, the plan collapsed when Maduro rejected the negotiated solution, reportedly due to concerns about his personal circumstances in exile and potential loss of control over foreign financial assets. The former Venezuelan leader demanded complete immunity, economic assurances and the ability to maintain a comfortable living standard in Russia, conditions that were not accepted, the sources said.
The Kremlin's diplomatic effort reflected Russia's desire to avoid an armed confrontation that would expose vulnerabilities in its military systems deployed in Venezuela and result in the definitive loss of its principal strategic ally in Latin America.
For over two decades, Venezuela served as a cornerstone of Russia's geopolitical presence in the Western Hemisphere through energy cooperation agreements, arms sales and political support against Washington.
Following the breakdown of diplomatic channels, the Venezuelan crisis entered what sources described as an "operational phase" that concluded weeks later with Maduro's arrest in Caracas during a US-led military operation on January 3. The rapid incursion laid bare the inability of Russian-manufactured air defence systems to counter the American action, a factor that deepened the strategic setback for Moscow.
According to current and former US officials cited by The New York Times, key elements of Venezuela’s Russian-supplied S-300 and Buk-M2 surface-to-air missile systems were not integrated with radar networks when US aircraft approached Venezuelan airspace. Some components were reportedly still in storage rather than deployed, rendering large sections of the country effectively undefended during the opening phase of the operation.
After Maduro's ouster, the Kremlin adopted an extremely cautious position, avoiding high-level statements and showing only lukewarm support for interim president Delcy Rodriguez. This stood in stark contrast to President Trump's enthusiastic embrace, which saw him praising Rodriguez as a "terrific person" and claiming his administration was making "tremendous progress" with her post-Chavista administration in several fields.
>>2660325Honestly pretty sell out america presured him im sure its not a coincidence that the eln promised to defend venezuela if the USA occupies
>>2660350this was already known, I believe Maduro himself said he was offered asylum and that he refused and taunted Trump to come get him lol
>>2660350>However, the plan collapsed when Maduro rejected the negotiated solution, reportedly due to concerns about his personal circumstances in exile and potential loss of control over foreign financial assets. The former Venezuelan leader demanded complete immunity, economic assurances and the ability to maintain a comfortable living standard in Russia, conditions that were not accepted, the sources said.I doubt he is that self centered or else he would have just cucked out from day one, I do think he believes in the political project and is not for sale like that
So basically the whole Maduro affair was Venezuela’s bourgeois selling Maduro out but to the US so the population’s rage wouldn’t be towards themselves, PSUV, or Delcy, that’s how I’m interpreting it
>>2660358Considering all the Israeli assassinations that have happened in Iran, would he have really been safer? Also he was a Lebanese nationalist and patriot, it would have been bad PR, especially with all the other religious sects in Lebanon he has to maintain relations with.
>>2660360Some of those FARC guys are in the ruling parliamentary coalition with Petro right now, what I don’t know is what percentage of the FARC actually put their weapons down to join the government
>>2660360Even assuming the colombian goverment was negioated in good faith , the army paramilitaries and the deep state would just murder them as soon as they dropped their weapons
>>2660364they have the training and the networks are almost certainly still vestigial, even if they're rusty. They can always pick those weapons back up.
>>2660362According to finkelstine nasralah could have hid in a tunnel complex but chose not to
>>2660365Yeah I don’t see a situation where Gulf Clan and other right wing militias running around are still armed but the leftists put their guns down first, it would be suicidal
>>2660334>if leftypol had been around in the 80s, there would be people still saying trust gorbachev's plan! the CPSU is still in control!I mean Delcy is doing the essentially doing the exact same process of liberalization Maduro was doing. Ultimately the big salient point, and the elephant in the room, is whether she will call for elections and then fuck off, then that would pretty much settle whether she sold out or not. Until then objectively chavistas are still in control.
>>2660366I think they will have to after petros term ends the cia will put their thumb on the scale rig the election and the paramilitares will massacre as many as they can
>>2660369There is a class struggle within Chavismo between the bourgeois who got rich under Chavez when oil prices were high and the proletariat there
>>2660367He’s a braver man than I ever will be
>>2660371Catch 22 in this situation
Do nothing the revolution loses direction
Rebel get coopted by the cia
Somehow push with in the system while being against external influence?
>>2660126True tbh now how do we wake people up?
>>2660126Unironically good position
>>2660338*yawn* according to two former officials.
according to former officials Chavez died in Cuba.
ABC (Spain)
https://www.elpais.com.uy/mundo/abc-asegura-que-chavez-fallecio-en-cuba-y-9-horas-antesyou keep quoting 'anonymous sources', you are eating US psyops.
>As Trump zeroes in on Venezuela’s oil, Rodríguez moves to meet his demandsVenezuelan lawmakers on Thursday backed a plan that would make it easier for foreign companies to participate in the country’s oil industry, in the latest move by Caracas to meet the demands of US President Donald Trump.
For almost two decades, much of the country’s oil industry has been nationalized under the government-controlled oil firm PDVSA, with foreign oil companies allowed only to operate in limited joint ventures with the public firm.
Under a proposed reform to the country’s hydrocarbons law, announced by acting President Delcy Rodríguez last week, foreign companies would be allowed to manage oilfields at their “own risk and cost,” Venezuela lawmaker Orlando Camacho said.
Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday gave its initial backing to the reform bill, which now faces a second round of debate before it can be adopted.
“Oil beneath the ground is useless,” said National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez, who is the brother of the acting president. “What good is it to say that we have the largest oil reserves on the planet if conditions … prevent an accelerated process toward production, toward increasing oil production? And we need to do it and do it now.”
In opening up access to US oil companies, the move would meet one of the main demands the Trump administration has made on Caracas following the capture by US forces of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
The White House has previously announced agreements between Caracas and Washington for the sale of $500 million worth of Venezuelan crude, with Rodríguez on Tuesday saying that Venezuela had received $300 million of that figure.
The security issue
In what appeared to be another move to meet US demands, the lawmakers on Thursday backed another law aimed at boosting legal protections for businesses – one of the issues US oil company executives have told Trump is a condition for them to invest in the country.
“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like,” one well-placed industry source told CNN earlier this month
Venezuela has more proven oil reserves than any country on the planet. Yet oil companies say that to invest in far-flung drilling projects, they need confidence about what the operating environment there will look like years, if not decades, into the future.
Rodríguez also told a meeting of the Federal Government Council on Wednesday that there would be a public consultation on March 8 on plans for national infrastructure projects and improvements to “essential public services,” such as water, electricity and transportation.
That date – International Women’s Day – had been chosen “so that we may go forth with the spirit of our women, with the spirit of our warriors,” Rodríguez said.
Trump on Thursday offered a positive assessment of the acting president when asked by reporters if he would let her remain in power.
“But she’s shown very strong leadership so far, I have to say, and we’re moving in to the United States millions of barrels of oil as we speak,” Trump said of Rodríguez. “Well, right now … they’re showing very strong leadership.”
The latest moves by Rodríguez come as US Senate Democrats demand to know whether Trump’s inner circle stands to profit from Venezuelan oil sales, following CNN reports of the administration’s private talks with the nation’s biggest oil companies.
Release of prisoners
The US has also demanded that Venezuela release the many political prisoners it has locked up across the country.
While Venezuela has in the past denied keeping political prisoners, it announced two weeks ago it would release a “significant number” of people as a “peace” gesture to the US.
However, local organizations say the government has freed only around 15% of those held arbitrarily or for political reasons.
The Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness organization said Wednesday that it has verified 167 releases since January 8 and documents 949 people still detained for political reasons, a number it says has increased in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, the rights group Foro Penal on Monday said there had been 143 releases, while its tally of political prisoners was at 777.
The government insists it has freed more people than rights groups claim. On January 14, it reported that about 212 people had been let out since the National Assembly leader announced the new phase of releases in early January. However, officials continue to withhold the identities of those released and the detention centers from where they were freed.
CNN has repeatedly requested more information from the government without receiving a response.
Some of those released have been high-profile figures such as Rafael Tudares, the son-in-law of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González; Enrique Márquez, another former opposition presidential candidate; and Perkins Rocha, legal adviser to the Vente Venezuela party.
In a separate development Thursday, a senior State Department official confirmed to CNN that Ambassador Laura F. Dogu had been appointed Chargé d’Affaires of the US Office of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/americas/venezuela-oil-law-reform-delcy-trump-latam-intl >>2660378You are down to complete cope at this point is saying that everything is false. I look forward to you. Just repeating the same line like a hundred times over the next few months. Truly cuz it's all you're going to be able to do as things just stqck up over and over. So make sure to save more of those sojack memes cuz you're not going to have any other refutation except that. Good luck
>>2660010>If morality didn't inform my politics I wouldn't be a socialist, I'd just side with whoever would make me the most money.Absolutely alienated.
Do you understand that morality isn't the only reason to build a collaborative society? I thought a libsoc would be most likely to understand what mutual benefit is.
>>2660388Not every libsoc is informed by kropotkin
>>2660384>>2660386My cope is that the deng reforms were selling out at the time but it just made china stronger and more of a potential danger to capitalism
Hopefully this a step back to take 2 step forward
>>2660332Based anon buttblasting the muh AES pro-Bolivarianism retards
>>2660329Except the kim family don't exercise dictatorial control as already explained ITT multiple times and in addition to that the situation they're in is much more explainable by how they were genocided by the US and then trapped with sanctions, a situation that was hand waved away because "muh vietnam and cambodia aren't like that" even though vietnam regards DPRK as a socialist ally. your slander of them as monarchist is downright wrong, and your dismissal of the genocide and sanctions that happened to them as unimportant in explaining their current conditions is even worse. just because trolls were shitting up the thread doesn't excuse reactionary slander of the dprk.
I'm gonna just hope that total biosphere death doesn't happen in my lifetime.
>>2660401 (me)
why did vietnam join? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
>>2660381what does this even mean?
>>2660397>>2660398Tbh who cares
If the dprk is not a monarchy then it should be left alone and free from external threats and intervention
If it is a monarchy then it should be left alone and free from external threats and intervention
Internally from a leftist point of view it would be a good idea for them to have someone besides the kim family have power (the extent that they do is up for debate )
And for them to have greater democratic political participation in the country (again feel free to debate the extent that they already do this)
And it would be easier if they were left alone and allowed to grow as they decide
>>2660398the executive head of DPRK, the equivalent of donald trump, is not kim jong un, but Pak Thae-Song, who has only been incumbent since 2024…
The head of the legislature is vacant currently, will be filled again soon, but the incumbent was Pak In-chol from 2023 to late 2025, so also not Kim Jong Un.
Saying DPRK is a "hereditary dictatorship" or an "absolute monarchy" is just reactionary slander.
Nobody cares about the ceremonial positions Kim Jong Un holds. Literally nobody in the "international community" goes around saying England is a "hereditary dictatorship" because of the bucktoothed inbred Germans in Buckingham Palace, but maybe they should
>>2660401>invited China and Russia Is he seriously trying to build an alternative to the United nations? Russia even said they'd pay the 1 billion fee with frozen assets. wtf is going on lmao
>>2660406>Tbh who cares>If the dprk is not a monarchy then it should be left alone and free from external threats and intervention >If it is a monarchy then it should be left alone and free from external threats and interventionthat's the conclusion that was made AT THE BEGINNING of the conversation see
>>2660204 (me)
>>2660096 (not me)
>>2660402Kinda scared of that tbh, climate change news is out of the cycle its like we all agreed to think about it until it is too late, mass action is so improbable right now and the average person is so unaware and so inured by normalcy bias and ignorance that
Its going to be a shock to most people when their bubbles burst
>>2660411I am agreeing with you
>>2660398Even if they were a family dictatorship it's still more tolerable than a fake bourgeois democracy.
N. Korea hasn't gone the same road as USSR, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Venezuela because they are more tightly organized in any case.
>>2660424lol they made it with AI
>>2660424Poor man's League Of Nations
>>2660432>>2660429I love how everyone's country signing it isn't even in the
probably grok-made AI slop they chose to describe the world.
and I thought that the EU leaders are cucked….
>>2660021I respect it, fuck zogmerica
>>2660424Cum in the name of piss
>>2660021Claim:
>overdosing so hard on being anti-AmericanReality:
<It is well known that the United States has ignored our Republic for half a century and pursued a policy against socialism and the DPRK. It is good that,after the termination of the cold war, some far-sighted7figures in the United States insist on establishing peaceful relations between the DPRK and the United States. We are not using, as some people claim, the “nuclear issue” as a means to improve our relations with the United States. The relations between countries only improve, when they understand each other andr each agreement; they are never improved by the use of artifice by either side.KIM IL SUNG - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS RAISED BY A JOURNALIST DELEGATION FROM THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER THE WASHINGTON TIMES April 16, 1994
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16b.pdf >U.S. diplomats return to Caracas to assess reopening embassy after Maduro ouster
U.S. State Department officials, including the interim U.S. ambassador to Colombia, John T. McNamara, traveled to Venezuela on Friday for the first time since strongman Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in his residence in Caracas, as Washington weighs reopening its embassy in Caracas after nearly six years.
The visit reflects the Trump administration’s efforts to re-establish a diplomatic presence in Venezuela following Maduro’s removal and comes as President Donald Trump has said the United States intends to play a central role in the country’s transition and reconstruction.
McNamara is also the head of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit, VAU, which has been operating out of the U.S. embassy in Bogotá since the U.S. withdrew its diplomats from Venezuela in 2019.
“On January 9, U.S. diplomatic and security personnel from the VAU, including Chargé d’Affaires John T. McNamara, traveled to Caracas to conduct an initial assessment for a potential phased resumption of operations,” a State Department spokesperson said.
The United States withdrew its diplomats and suspended embassy operations in 2019 after Maduro’s government severed diplomatic ties in response to Washington’s recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president. Since then, U.S. diplomatic engagement with Venezuela has been handled from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá.
In a statement, the socialist regime in Caracas, now led by interim President Delcy Rodríguez, confirmed Friday that they were in “exploratory” talks for the reopening of the embassies in Caracas and Washington as a needed step to address “the aggression and kidnapping of the President of the Republic and the first lady, and to address issues of mutual interests.” The statement also said that a Venezuelan delegation will travel to the United States with similar purposes.
Against the backdrop of the visit is the fate of at least five Americans who have been recently detained in Venezuela as the Trump administration was building up a military force off the coast of the South American country.
On Thursday, Venezuelan interim authorities announced they were releasing prisoners, including foreigners, as a goodwill gesture. So far, the government has released a few prisoners, including five Spanish and two Italian citizens. Some of them were Venezuelans with dual nationality, like the politician Biagio Pilieri and the activist Rocío San Miguel.
The State Department has not said if the Americans will be released. In a social media post announcing that Venezuelan interim authorities were releasing “large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of ‘Seeking Peace,’” Trump did not mention the Americans detained.
Though it is still unclear if Rodriguez’s government will free over 800 people considered political prisoners by Foro Penal, an organization tracking arbitrary arrests in Venezuela, events are unfolding fast after the U.S. military raid to capture Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
On Thursday, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States will immediately begin selling between 30 and 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil as part of a plan under which the U.S. would market the oil and control how the proceeds are used. In Caracas, Rodríguez met with some members of minority opposition parties in the National Assembly.
minnesota status?
>>2660444Oh look, the shutdown came and went and fuck all happened
do we have any plans for doing communism or…?
>Halliburton takes step toward possible Venezuela return with job board posting
HOUSTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Halliburton is seeking resumes for a range of positions in Venezuela, including engineers and technicians, according to a job board posting from the oilfield service company dated January 16, signalling a potential move back to the South American country.
The posting comes just weeks after the U.S. government captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and U.S. President Donald Trump called on oil companies to invest $100 billion in Venezuela to vastly boost production.
Halliburton, which exited Venezuela in 2020 and eliminated all staff positions there following U.S. sanctions, is collecting candidate information from engineers, technicians and other skilled oil workers and recent graduates interested in joining the company's "talent network" in the country.
The job platform said that the submissions would allow recruiters to view candidates' profiles for potential future job opportunities, but these would not constitute a formal application.
Halliburton did not immediately reply to a request for comment seeking additional details.
The company's CEO, Jeff Miller, participated in a January 9 meeting at the White House with Trump, where he said the company first started operations in Venezuela in 1938.
Miller told Trump that he had lived in Venezuela for four years at one point and raised his children there. The company is "very interested" in returning, he added
>>2660447Step 1. ????
Step 2 ????
Step 3 glorious revolution
Step 4 connnect all enterprises witj computers for cybernetic socialism
Step 5 win
>Venezuela Private Sector Says Fresh Flow of Dollars Could Stabilize Exchange Market, Prices
Jan 21 (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela’s main business association said the group welcomes the economic measures announced so far by the country's interim government, including a fresh injection of foreign currency funded by oil revenues, saying the moves will help stabilize the exchange market and prices.
Venezuelans have suffered a long economic deterioration marked by shortages, triple-digit inflation and the devaluation of the local bolivar currency, with the monthly minimum wage equivalent to just $0.37. Though public sector workers earn about $120 with bonuses, analysts estimate basic products for a family cost some $500 per month. Even those working in the private sector, which pays higher salaries, often earn bolivar-denominated wages in an economy that has been largely dollarized for years.
Supplies of dollars, which businesses need in order to bring in imported materials, tightened sharply at the end of 2025, as the U.S. seized Venezuelan oil tankers and hit the country's top revenue flow, stoking inflation.
But Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodriguez said on Tuesday the country had received $300 million in oil sales, the first funds to arrive under a 50‑million‑barrel supply agreement announced by U.S. President Donald Trump following the capture of Rodriguez's predecessor Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
“We welcome steps aimed at regularizing and stabilizing the exchange system…any exchange gap affects the pricing system,” said Felipe Capozzolo, president of Fedecamaras, the country’s main private sector guild, in an interview late on Tuesday, referring to the difference between the official and unofficial exchange rates. “Businesspeople are the first to want price stability in Venezuela. We will support any measure taken by the government aimed at stabilizing the economy."
Businesses still face challenges like inflation, tax pressures and financing restrictions, Capozzolo said, but expectations about the economy are beginning to improve on renewed momentum in the oil sector and a possible rise in investment.
“A different perception is beginning to take shape about what our economic performance might be,” he said.
The government has said the economy grew 9% in 2025, though it has not provided inflation data. Local analyst firms estimate much more modest economic growth of around 3% and consumer price rises above 400% last year.
Venezuelans hope more oil exports will boost the economy and improve wages battered by soaring inflation.
“Venezuelans want to earn a decent income. Our wages are worthless, on the floor. We need investors to come, because there are no good jobs,” said Moises Figueredo, a 56‑year‑old security guard, as he bought food at one of Caracas’ main markets. “I hope things improve."
“I worked at a ministry but left because the situation was tough, my salary wasn’t enough even for transport,” said Celis Chirinos, 44, a fruit and vegetable vendor. “What we want is to work, to see things improve."
Upddate
>>2660436from 'secretary of war' to the 'board of peace'.
>Trading house Trafigura has sold its first cargo of Venezuelan crude oil as part of a 50-million-barrel supply deal between Caracas and Washington, industry sources said on Thursday, with Spanish refiner Repsol taking the shipment.
The cargo is expected to be delivered to Repsol in Spain in February, two of the sources said.
Trafigura did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Repsol declined to comment.
The deal would mark one of the first sales of Venezuelan oil to Europe since the United States captured the South American country's leader earlier this month and then struck agreements with Caracas to export up to 50 million barrels of its oil.
Trafigura and rival commodities trading house Vitol were tapped by Washington to facilitate the initial exports.
Vitol is separately shipping a cargo of Venezuelan oil to its Saras refinery in Italy as part of the deal, several industry sources told Reuters earlier on Thursday.
Vitol has also struck deals to sell cargos of Venezuelan oil to U.S. refiners Valero Energy and Phillips 66, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The trading houses have been marketing Venezuelan oil to refiners in India and elsewhere too.
>>2660424Narrow Cuba, Fat Florida, the Ocean of San Diego and the Tits of Greenland
>>2660424It's not even all of North America as it cuts off Alaska for no reason. And the grid lines are wrong too.
You will never be a real communist. You have no gulags, no mass executions, and no true political power. You are a 14-year-old boy influenced by internet radicals, attempting to be unique and edgy by mimicking a non-existent regime.
The so-called "political support" you receive is insincere and half-hearted. People mock you behind your back. Your parents are disappointed and ashamed of your beliefs, and your "friends" laugh at your Marxist dogma in private.
You repulse people with your extreme views. Decades of political progress have exposed the true intentions of communism. Your denial of the Uyghur genocide is a dead giveaway. Even if you manage to meet a single person willing to put up with you, they will eventually find a video of you ranting about Marxist nonsense, and you will lose any support you once had.
You will never find happiness. Every morning, you force a fake smile and convince yourself that everything is okay, but underneath, the depression eats away at you like a cancer.
Eventually, it will all become too much. You'll take a rope, tie a noose, wrap it around your neck, and sink into a dark abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to bear the unbearable shame and disappointment of your actions. They will bury you under a headstone bearing your birth name, and anyone who passes by will know that a member of the "workers' revolution" is buried there. Your body will decompose into dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton in a grave that is unmistakably upper-middle-class.
This is your destiny. You made the choice. There is no going back.
>>2660463Better than being a lib or a chud
>>2660461Ahhh…. the baja California sur Sinaloa land bridge
>Release of political prisoners, Delcy Rodríguez's "gesture" after Maduro's capture
The release early Thursday morning of Rafael Tudares , son-in-law of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia , is the latest in a series of more than 150 releases that, according to several NGOs, have taken place in Venezuela since January 8. It was on that date that the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, announced the release of “a significant number” of detainees
Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez , has framed these releases of political prisoners, which the government puts at 400, within the "new political moment" that she says her country is going through, since on January 3, President Nicolás Maduro was captured in an operation by US troops along with his wife, Cilia
“The message is that Venezuela is opening up to a new political moment that allows for understanding from divergence and from political and ideological diversity, but it must be with respect for the other, it must be with respect for human rights,” said Rodríguez, who then put the number of releases since last December at 406.
Her statements came on the same day that Trump revealed he had held a telephone conversation with the interim president as part of the rapprochement between Caracas and Washington, which for the United States has as its main focus Venezuelan oil.
Trump, who that day described the Chavista leader as a "fantastic person," has said he will govern Venezuela until there is a "safe" transition
>Venezuelan interim president Rodriguez to visit US. Delcy Rodriguez would be the first sitting Venezuelan president to visit the US in more than 25 years.
Venezuela's interim president will soon visit the United States, a senior US official said on Wednesday, January 21, further signaling President Donald Trump's willingness to embrace the oil-rich country's new leader. Delcy Rodriguez would be the first sitting Venezuelan president to visit the United States in more than a quarter century, aside from presidents attending United Nations meetings in New York.
She said, on Wednesday, that she approached any dialogue with the United States "without fear." "We are in a process of dialogue, of working with the United States, without any fear, to confront our differences and difficulties (…) and to address them through diplomacy," said Rodriguez.
A senior White House official said Rodriguez would visit soon, but no date has been set. The invitation reflects a head-snapping shift in relations between Washington and Caracas since US Delta Force operatives swooped into Caracas, seized President Nicolas Maduro and spirited him to a US jail to face narcotrafficking charges.
She has allowed the US to broker the sale of Venezuelan oil, facilitated foreign investment and released dozens of political prisoners
On Wednesday, she also began reorganizing the leadership of the country's military forces, appointing 12 senior officers to regional commands. Trump has so far appeared happy to allow Rodriguez and much of the repressive government to remain in power
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>>2660472Not having a source means this is spam.
>>2660473I have a source for every single thing I've posted in here about Venezuela. I simply am summarizing the articles themselves. Nothing that I have posted is false information or spam
>Delcy Rodríguez asserted that the reform of the Hydrocarbons Law will strengthen energy sovereignty.
The change in legislation is also aimed at "attracting investment and developing untapped areas for the benefit of the Venezuelan people," the acting president emphasized.
This Thursday, the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, asserted that the Partial Reform of the Organic Hydrocarbons Law is aimed at strengthening energy sovereignty, attracting investments and developing unexploited oil fields for the benefit of the Venezuelan people.
This was reported on her social media accounts, where she indicated that she was present at the office of the Vice Minister of Petroleum, Paula Henao , and, accompanied by a group of officials, monitored the National Assembly session in which the "historic reform of the Organic Hydrocarbons Law" was considered. The high-ranking official explained that the objective of the Law is "to attract investment for the development of fields never before exploited in Venezuela, which will generate happiness and well-being for the Venezuelan people."
"May the exploitation of the oil fields be for the happiness of the people , directly for the happiness of our people," he proudly declared after the project's approval in its first reading.
"Together with the officials of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons, we are monitoring the healthy and necessary debate in the National Assembly on the Partial Reform of the Organic Law of Hydrocarbons, aimed at strengthening energy sovereignty, attracting investments and developing unexploited fields for the benefit of the Venezuelan people," he wrote on his interaction platforms.
For her part, Vice Minister Henao stated that "this reform of the law is very timely, especially at this moment." She also referred to the "immense reserves" that Venezuela still has to develop, "especially in the Orinoco Oil Belt, and this proposed law allows us to promote the development of these fields by attracting investments that will mean greater benefits for the people."
A qualified majority in the National Assembly:
The President of the Legislative Branch, Jorge Rodríguez who is her brother, reported that the Draft Law for the Partial Reform of the Organic Hydrocarbons Law, aimed at accelerating the increase in oil production in Venezuela, was approved in its first reading by a qualified majority. He also indicated that it is a "necessary reform."
>>2660467>you will never drive on the Cuban autopista A4, crossing the Carribean towards Merida then cross all of Mexico to visit the Sinaloa land bridgeVGH what could've bean….
>>2660481Vgh the saltwater lake of cortez
>>2660482Vghhh the plains of the Small Lakes
>>2660490Super secret fan club invite CANCELLED
>>2660490Did something else happen or is this a delayed reaction?
>>2660490Dear Mr Carney you are hereby disinvited from my sleepover
>>2660490Not dodging the catty bitch allegations
>>2660476Wrong. Post primary sources from venezuela, not fake imperialist news
>>2660500Venezuela is US puppet hence burger sources are primary sources
So, is there any resistance in USA to this monroe doctrine and explicit imperialism stuff?
Greenland is probably just a distraction so that they can pass the Gaza colonization, Iran war and new GWOT+WoD stuff in peace.
I can't bring myself to hate Trump as much as I hate the purported socdems which nonetheless go along with anything and seem to be trying to build fascism by gatekeeping any alternatives.
At least Trump is a buffoon
>>2660515The Dems are opposed to it in principle but as we all know they're mostly useless. However Trump's recent retreat from his talk of taking Greenland I think suggests that he's gotten a stern talking to from the foreign policy and security establishment. I don't think those guys would be inclined to let Trump cripple the US empire for literally no reason.
>>2660045No response from that anon after pointing out those two possibilities, interesting.
>>2660519Hows those human rights and democracy working out lmao
>>2660048Your smug sarcasm isn't funny, ya pussy.
>>2660521pretty badly as all of the capitalist countries don't really have them and all the "communist" countries have them even less
>>2660519Human rights and democracy are when an apartheid state commits genocide apparently.
>>2660525L take but you do you
will the euroids eventually beg to be let into the board of peace?
>>2660524They have them more though
Literally WHO?
K I'm back. Are Chagos and the yanqui-schizo gone yet?
Excited for the strike today, wish I could be there with you. Sadly I am a leaf and cannot risk ever crossing the border while this fascist crew is in charge due to things online I've said about them and what I want to do to them.
>>2660555Imagine what they will do when they don't have the media watching. They won't even bother planting evidence, they will just make it up and tell the courts their experts verified it. That's assuming they don't just plant a bullet in your skull.
>>2660555if she was thinner the original pic would've gone so hard
>>2660555Something something, necropolitics.
>>2660555I find it kind of fascinating how little time it took for AI to destroy society. Like, ChatGPT came out in what, 2022? And the White House is already spamming AI edited photos, and if you ask them they'd probably tell you the photo isn't edited at all and this actually happened, and the media won't challenge them on it at all. We're extremely close to the WH posting straight up AI generated videos of "terrorism" that never happened as justification for violence against minorities, with a victim list of fictional people that no one can verify, and the media is just gonna accept it as fact. Imagine if the CIA had access to this kind of evil during the 00's with the Iraqi WMD's spectacle.
>>2660555Amazing how many people in this country are just cartoonishly evil.
Nice trips. The 2nd American civil war is going to really suck. Imagine having to pop off your family members over this. It’s not even like the first civil war where it was regionally based.
God I miss Shay. I wish I could’ve married her when I had the chance.
WHERG WHERG WHERG
Jkj
>>2660570Hneeeehhhhh heennnhh hehhhnnn
Im ready to die from big fucking snow
Revolution status?
I feel like nobody on the left in the USA is organizing to make a real difference. It's all just managing the decline of neoliberalism into parafascism. I welcome being proven wrong however.
>>2660576Questionable, but okay.
I don't wish to disparage anyone because the work being done is important, but it's stopping short of being transformative.
>>2660583Okay I get the point. I should be doing something.
Honestly I'd do something if I knew what the fuck to do.
>>2660614Would be if there was any sort of resistance to what Trump says or does
>>2660617looking it up the 40 years ago may be referencing the start of consistent stri monitoring of gulf of panama waters.
>>2660612AI slop article.
>>2660626I don't write like a neutral centrist. My article would end with an obligatory Death to fhe Shityank
How many Texans do you think will die today? If a few thousand die, they will keep voting for Rafael Cruz unsurprisingly
>>2660623why did mauritus cuck out and go for a lease instead of demanding the island itself? 99 years might as well be never in international politics
>>2660623>>2660624
>the base that allows the US to strike everywhereI told leftypol about the Prompt Global Strike initiative a few years back and was told I was "schizo" and that such goals were "impossible"
I found out about it from Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
>>2660623>while climate change is gradually opening new maritime routes in the arcticof course these bastards see the end of the world as another trade opportunity
>>2660673It's not like they have much leverage to negotiate
>>2660561>how little time it took for AI to destroy societyok that pic is insane but stop being hysterical uygha, literally everyone but chvds is calling them out for it
>>2660612So many of you were told that climate results consistently are worse than even the most "pessimistic" predictions put forward by the neoliberals, and yet so many of you badgered the people warning you about climate "hysteria" and said that "the science proved" that things "weren't that bad" because you kept looking at the deliberately softened "predictions" put forwards by the neoliberals. Year after year results are worse than the most pessimistic predictions and still we do less than nothing as a collective. Even the best among us don't do enough. And we're distracted by a million other issues. And we call the people telling us to prioritize according to impact "hysterical," a 19th century pseudoscience word that means "go get your pussy fingered by a doctor"
>>2660681>calling them out for itsee
>>2659543 >>2660682in other words, its joever
>>2660555this is just the more advanced stage of drawing your enemy as a soyjak or happy merchant
>>2660564that's just standard photoshop, but it's kind of funny because I'm 80% sure I've seen /pol/ post that same pic to argue that liberals
remove face tattoos from people's mugshots to "humanize them"
>>2660555this is the kind of government that screams about other places'
democracies and such >>2660685>oh my reddit this world is le bad bc nobody is calling them out over this!!!!! the very fabric of society has been torn apart!!!!!!!!!!<everyone has called them out, actually>ummmmmmmmmmmm ok look up this psychology term describing phenomena that only happens sometimes but i treat like eternal physical lawslol ok?
honkoid status?
>>2660424funfact:
Of the 11 countries represented there in the trumpedo's so called board of peace, the US government has, under trumpedo's decision, barred their citizens from entering the country legally under any type of visa: they can't request US visas of any type.
fun times, huh.
>>2660673>never be in international politicsThat is not a choice you infantile yank. Nobody can just isolate from international shenanigans, definitely not a country which has no resources of its own.
>99 year leaseEnlighten me how Mauritius can make the USA abandon its only base in the Indian Ocean.
Almost like you did nof even read the article.
>>2660675The more ignorant the anon, the more smug the anon. I remember when I first brought up chagos, anons and CPUSAnon in particular were pissed off that I was bringing up this 'tiny irrelevant island'.
>>2660659The most texan deaths from this freak winter storm will be the same as last time: mostly homeless and poor
>>2660673it was it mauritus porkies interest to do so
>>2660545>K I'm backgo away
Minneapolis status?
>>2659846would love to see them both do hard labor for the rest of their days
>>2660673>>2660673You are wrong. Lease is good because Mauritius is exploiting anglo and making them pay reparations and restitution
>>2660041Amerikans steal days worth of global oil consumption , so why do amerikans act like they are the ones getting fucked? Like the oil isnt fueling their economic? They clamor for any way to deny imperialism
>>2660505Venezuela is not puppet. You say lies
>>2660764Why do third world proles take advantage of the slave labor that actually extracts resources? You deny slavery being the only reason you can post on this website. Free your slaves, parasite.
>>2660764hes right. its not sustainable. oil is on its way out, welcome to the renewables revolution
>Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
Saskatchewan boutta secede too
>>2660764ai generated response
>>2660764This is true. Americans have objectively the best living standard in the world. Not to diminish the struggle of poor Americans, but it is curious how these guys constantly talk about depression and fascism as if they're Palestinians living under Israeli rule (i know the reason why but i think a lot of leftists will disagree with that)
>>2660774Most Albertans don't want to secede, polls show separatist sentiment topping out at round 30%. Still, imo the government is not cracking down on this nearly hard enough. If I were PM I'd invoke the notwithstanding clause and make it illegal to express separatist or annexationist views.
>>2660779>but it is curious how these guys constantly talk about depression and fascism as if they're Palestinians living under Israeli ruleLiteral oppression Olympics. Do you also tell Brazillians that they should stop complaining? They live much better than the Congolese. This must be why they just elect socdems like Lula instead of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. They must be treatlers right?
>They want what the US has got
We have
>Zog
Zionst occupied government
>pog
Podcaster occupied goverment
>bog
Billioniare occupied goverment
>miog
Miltary industrial complex occupied government
>pog
Pedofile occupied government
>rog
Rapist occupied government
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Drug user occupied government
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Tech bro occupied government
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Miami gusano occupied government
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Ghoul occupied government
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Fraudist occupied government
>>2660781>make it illegal to express separatist or annexationist views.least authoritarian canuck
>>2660786enhance!
rotate!
this is america.
>>2660786What is causing this
>>2660791snowstorm this weekend
>>2660792Why was he son such a cuck? Pierre was the last socdem with balls.
>>2659942>history vindicated social fascism theorymany can't handle these levels of enriched trukium
>>2660799his son isn't even a socdem, but a liberal
and pierre was a cuck, but in the literal sense (someone post the castro/trudeau love affair video from jinx lol)
>>2660799My honest opinion is that Pierre lived in a time when the worker's movement globally was stronger and the postwar social democratic compromise was still the conventional wisdom of Western governance. Justin by contrast was in office during the era of neoliberalism, so obviously he'll be less based.
>>2660805It was less of a cucking and more like swinging. Pierre Trudeau was a notorious womanizer, so no doubt he was chasing Havana pussy while Castro was keeping Margaret company.
>>2660799>Pierre>BallsThat's an opinion. The guy float with the flow wherever it take him. He can talk but he always have the opinion that will give him more votes and never stand for his own, if he have any.
And they are both turbo capitalists. Pierre own close to 100 millions. Don't pretend that they care or identify with the workers.
>>2660805Here.
>>2660742Wonder how much this has to do with the Retard in Chief saying the quiet part out loud
>>2660614 >>2660815let's talk about some of the people that you had se- 😰 THAT YOUR
PATHS CROSSED WITH 😅
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>>2660833>>2660251>>2660241i wish the strike tracker wasn't laggy dogshit controled by a university
>>2660519/pol/fag glowbait
>>2660519>couldn't respond to the post<baits about the pic instead and hope people get distracted towards the bait from the postI see you chinless faggot
>>2660463incredibly stale bait
>>2660045when you ask the yanqui chimp to stop raping and bombing the world for 5 fucking seconds he screeches that you are a "fed" and insists that you are saying "total burger death."
Remarkable narcissism from the yanqui chimp.
>>2660045total burger death is morally correct
>>2660899truth nuke
>>2660915false flag
>>2660045To be hateful against imperialists is appropriately anti-imperialist thobeit
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