• Cochise@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 months ago

    Exactly. Trump wants do buy Venezuelan oil, and Venezuela wants to sell it, but US sanctions don’t allow it. What Trump needed was a way to lift the sanctions that didn’t look too much as a defeat, so they kidnap Maduro to pretend bolivarianism is over and lift the sanctions.