{"id":24073,"date":"2017-05-25T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24073"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:58:18","slug":"will-venezuela-be-the-battleground-in-the-next-u-s-russia-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24073","title":{"rendered":"Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/venezuela-us-russia-proxy-war\/\">Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<article id=\"post-70385\" class=\"main-content post-70385 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-geopolitics category-news category-russia category-united-states category-world tag-citgo tag-nicolas-maduro tag-oil tag-pdvsa tag-proxy-war tag-russia tag-s-1018 tag-south-america tag-united-states-2 tag-venezuela tag-venezuela-humanitarian-assistance-and-defense-of-democratic-governance-act\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/will-venezuela-be-the-battleground-in-the-next-u-s-russia-proxy-war\/228083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MPN<\/a>)\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s no denying that Venezuela is deeply embroiled in a significant crisis. While most are aware of the country\u2019s recent string of violent protests, food shortages and government crackdowns on opposition protesters, few are aware of the opposition\u2019s use of underhanded and downright illegal tactics, as well as the United States\u2019 role in funding opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has long had its sights set on Venezuela, which possesses<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/the-world-s-largest-oil-reserves-by-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the largest proven oil reserves<\/a> in the world, particularly following the \u201crevolution\u201d that began with the election of the late President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and has continued under his successor Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. But changing circumstances within Venezuela may soon push the U.S. to repeat a nefarious practice it has carried out elsewhere \u2013 funding a proxy war in order to prevent Venezuelan oil from falling into Russian and Chinese hands.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the U.S. government seemed content to let Maduro\u2019s administration run out of steam on its own. But the U.S. has already issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/us-imposes-new-unilateral-sanctions-venezuela\/228014\/\">separate sanctions<\/a> against the country three times this year alone, with more planned in the coming months, as evidenced by the introduction of a recent U.S. Senate bill that would target Venezuelan government officials. The bill, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Final%20VZ%20leg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act<\/a>\u201d (S.1018), would funnel $20 million to the Venezuelan opposition, which has already received<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/does-the-uss-funding-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> an estimated $50 to $60 million<\/a> since Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s election in 1998.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>And now, the stakes may now be too high for the U.S. to allow Maduro\u2019s regime to collapse under the weight of economic sabotage. By all accounts, Venezuela\u2019s state-owned oil company PDVSA is already<a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Geopolitics\/International\/Venezuelas-Oil-Production-On-The-Brink-Of-Collapse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on the brink of collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War? (MPN)\u00a0There\u2019s no denying that Venezuela is deeply embroiled in a significant crisis. While most are aware of the country\u2019s recent string of violent protests, food shortages and government crackdowns on opposition protesters, few are aware of the opposition\u2019s use of underhanded and downright illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8803,1150,694,827,851,862],"class_list":["post-24073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antimedia","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24074,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24073\/revisions\/24074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}