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Venezuela is under United States occupation, albeit without the physical presence of U.S. troops on the ground. Since January 3 \u2014 when the Trump administration attacked the country and kidnapped President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on highly questionable drug and weapons charges \u2014 Venezuela has lost control of its oil, minerals, and foreign policy. <\/p>\n

In Maduro\u2019s absence Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, previously the country\u2019s vice president, took office as interim president. Together with her brother Jorge Rodr\u00edguez \u2014 head of Venezuela\u2019s National Assembly \u2014 they have been speaking to U.S. and Spanish media outlets about moving Venezuela towards a market-friendly economy while welcoming U.S. diplomats and delegations into the country. <\/p>\n

Reporting on Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s interim presidency, an article in The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em> recently noted that \u201cthe country has largely avoided revolutionary convulsions while a Wild West marketplace swarms with U.S. companies and investors.\u201d Focusing on the Cuban American lawyer Mauricio Claver-Carone, the Post<\/em> notes that since the military operation that deposed Maduro, Claver-Carone has become the \u201cunofficial U.S. viceroy of Venezuela, helping to implement the administration\u2019s plan to work with Delcy Rodr\u00edguez and exploit the South American country\u2019s vast oil wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Government of Occupation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tony Boza, an economist and former National Assembly legislator for the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), told Truthout<\/em> that the Rodr\u00edguez administration should be viewed as \u201ca government of occupation.\u201d Its job, in his view, is to \u201crapidly and hastily transform a series of laws, practically without consultation, while fulfilling all of the requirements being imposed upon it.\u201d In this process, Boza says Venezuela\u2019s financial independence has been decimated. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe resources that are being sold \u2014 in the case of oil and gold \u2014 are being handled with complete opacity, and nobody knows under what exact conditions they are being sold,\u201d Boza said, \u201cbecause all of that passed under the direct control of the group surrounding Donald Trump, even in violation of U.S. law itself, because there was never any declaration of war.\u201d <\/p>\n

On January 29, 2026, the National Assembly passed the Organic Hydrocarbons Law, which has been seen as the most important change to Venezuela\u2019s oil-sector framework since changes made in 2006 and 2007, when the government of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez forced foreign oil companies operating in the Orinoco Belt to convert their projects into mixed enterprises (empresas mixtas<\/em>) in which Venezuela\u2019s state oil company would hold at least 60 percent ownership. <\/p>\n

According to Boza, the central issue is that the royalties that the state receives from the energy sector for granting it the right to extract and sell oil are now contingent on a company\u2019s profitability. That means if a business does not generate profits on paper, royalty payments could fall to as little as 1 percent or even zero, since there is no guaranteed minimum threshold. In the future, he says, \u201cdisputes arising from the management of the oil business\u201d will be \u201ctransferred abroad\u201d because of the constitutional changes made under Rodr\u00edguez. This will mean that energy disputes will most likely end up in U.S. courts \u2014 the same judiciary that a few years ago seized Venezuela\u2019s state-owned Citgo company under the umbrella of U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan trade union activist Adelmo Becerra, from the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES), has a similar opinion. Speaking to Truthout<\/em>, Becerra said the changes to Venezuela\u2019s Organic Hydrocarbons Law, which took place in late January, have seen the country regress \u201cmore than 100 years, back to the era of Juan Vicente G\u00f3mez when the oil industry was transnational and the country obtained minimal income from petroleum, while those companies received almost all of the profits generated by oil revenues.\u201d While he has been critical of the lack of transparency in Maduro\u2019s government, Becerra notes that, \u201cthere was direct administration by the state and government over oil revenues.\u201d Now, however, \u201cThe U.S. government appropriates, controls, and allocates resources from those revenues according to its own interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2018, many trade unions became critical of the Maduro government for weakening collective bargaining in order to attract international investments and kickstart the economy due to the impact of U.S. sanctions. In Becerra\u2019s view, Rodr\u00edguez has continued with policies that disempower organised labor. <\/p>\n

Speaking recently to Germany\u2019s weekly Der Spiegel<\/em>, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Guerra \u2014 the only son of President Maduro \u2014 said Chavismo had to apologise for \u201cexcesses\u201d during the Maduro administration. A political movement founded by the late president Ch\u00e1vez, Chavismo historically has combined left-wing nationalism, anti-imperialism, state intervention in the economy, social welfare programs, and the goal of building a participatory form of democracy in Venezuela while forging Latin American unity. In Maduro Guerra\u2019s view, Chavismo under his father made several errors, including \u201cthe actions of the police,\u201d \u201cthe justice system, which has not always guaranteed fair processes,\u201d and \u201cthe right to defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

In late February, the Rodr\u00edguez administration passed new legislation that gave amnesty to hundreds of people who were incarcerated and charged with certain crimes deemed to be political in nature. The Trump administration put pressure on Venezuela\u2019s government to pass the legislation. Some proponents of Chavismo have pushed back on that decision, including long time media commentator and hard-left member of the PSUV, Mario Silva. He rejected the amnesty law, arguing that the people who were incarcerated had committed crimes against the country, referencing several anti-government demonstrations during both the administrations of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and Maduro, with the years 2014 and 2017 seeing the worst of the violence. A body known as the Committee of Victims of the Guarimba has sought for many years to hold accountable the perpetrators of ultra right-wing violence during those protests, who, in , have caused dozens of deaths and hundreds of serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Silva also released an open letter to Minister of the Interior and PSUV member Diosdado Cabello, who, given the power of his ministry, has allowed Rodr\u00edguez to oversee reforms opening the nation\u2019s national resources to private enterprise. In the letter, Silva again critiqued his party and Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s government. From Silva\u2019s perspective: \u201cNo amount of pressure can justify collaborating with an aggressor who, to date, has offered no guarantees regarding commitments that would represent progress or improvement for the Venezuelan people.\u201d <\/p>\n

El\u00edas Jaua, former vice president under Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, has also recently spoken out against what he calls a U.S. occupation of Venezuela. Jaua said that the Trump administration \u201cis controlling Venezuela\u2019s oil sales and depositing the income into a U.S. Treasury Department administered fund,\u201d a claim that U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has confirmed himself. According to Jaua, \u201conly some money will be handed back to allow the Venezuelan state to keep functioning\u201d which, \u201cis nothing more than tutelage under coercion and the neo-colonial administration of one government by another.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Venezuelan government officials, including Venezuela\u2019s current diplomatic envoy to the U.S., repeatedly declined to be interviewed for this article.<\/p>\n

Extradition of Alex Saab<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On May 23, the Venezuelan government allowed the U.S. military to conduct a \u201crapid response exercise involving Marines and military aircraft\u201d at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas \u2014 an action that would have been unthinkable under Maduro or Ch\u00e1vez. A few days before that, the Rodr\u00edguez administration handed over businessman and former Venezuelan minister Alex Saab to U.S. authorities. A Colombian-born Venezuelan, Saab was previously connected to the Maduro administration as he worked with allies like Iran to get around U.S. economic sanctions and import food and medicine into Venezuela for the Local Committees for Supply and Production (CLAP) program designed to distribute food to the country\u2019s poorest communities. <\/p>\n

In 2020, Saab was detained in Cape Verde and extradited to the United States, where he was accused of money laundering. His wife Camila Fabri Saab claimed in 2022 that Saab was \u201csuffering torture and inhumane treatment every day in the United States.\u201d The Maduro administration lobbied hard for his release, which was achieved in December 2023. In exchange for Saab, Caracas released 10 U.S. citizens, two of them mercenaries for Silvercorp USA, which had attempted to overthrow Maduro in 2019. In October 2024, Saab was made Venezuela\u2019s Minister of Popular Power for Industry and National Production \u2014 a position he held until January 16, 2026. <\/p>\n

After the U.S. military attack on Venezuela in January this year, according to Reuters<\/em>, Washington put pressure on Rodr\u00edguez to arrest Saab and extradite him. Had Rodr\u00edguez not carried out this action, among a long list of demands from the Trump administration, Washington might have indicted her like Maduro as Reuters<\/em> notes it was building up a case against her. <\/p>\n

On May 18, Diosdado Cabello publicly stated that Saab committed \u201cfrauds of all kinds\u201d that are being investigated while he had carried a \u201cfraudulent\u201d Venezuelan identity card since 2004. \u201cThere is no file that certifies that that person is Venezuelan,\u201d Cabello added. A day later, President Rodr\u00edguez declared that Saab\u2019s deportation took place \u201cout of national interest.\u201d <\/p>\n

Silva, for his part, asked on his program La Hojilla<\/em> two simple questions: Firstly, if Saab had carried a fraudulent Venezuelan identity card since 2004, why was this irregularity not detected in 22 years? Secondly, how did Saab end up working as diplomat and then a minister for the government of Venezuela under Maduro? <\/p>\n

Neoliberalism and Censorship <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Silva\u2019s program \u2014 which was known for its harsh critiques of the ultra-right inside Venezuela and of U.S. foreign policy, and once commanded one of the largest late night television audiences on the public broadcaster Venezolana de Televisi\u00f3n<\/em> (VTV) \u2014 was taken off the air in March of this year. That same month, another popular leftist political program, Zurda Konducta <\/em>(Left Conduct) was also removed from VTV. <\/p>\n

The elimination of such voices from Venezuelan state television appears to be an effort to diminish criticism of Caracas\u2019s forced rapprochement with Washington, and the global institutions over which the U.S. exerts enormous influence. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, members of Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s government met with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While Venezuela had been a member of the IMF and the World Bank since 1946, in the 2000s President Ch\u00e1vez withdrew his country from these bodies, which he labelled \u201cinstruments of U.S. imperialism.\u201d While Ch\u00e1vez attempted to promote alternative regional bodies like the Bank of the South, Brazil\u2019s lack of commitment (despite initial enthusiasm) never allowed the institution to be consolidated. By 2017, a collapse in international oil prices, declining oil production, a depletion of foreign reserves, and heavy U.S. economic sanctions led Venezuela to start defaulting on its international debts, which today stand at US$170 billion. <\/p>\n

According to Reuters<\/em>, the Rodr\u00edguez administration hired U.S. firm Centerview Partners \u200b\u201cwithout a formal competitive process\u201d to renegotiate Venezuela\u2019s massive external debt burden and facilitate the country\u2019s reintegration into international financial markets. The recommendation to hire the firm reportedly came from Claver-Carone, an ex-Trump government official and close associate of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n

Commenting to Truthout<\/em> on the new ties between Caracas and the IMF, Becerra said \u201cthere is no transparent information\u201d concerning the objectives of the new relationship. However, \u201cbased on global experience,\u201d Becerra added that it is clear that countries that negotiate with the IMF \u201csubordinate their economic policy to well-known neoliberal measures that are contrary to the economic and social rights of the great majority of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February 1989, after the government of the corrupt President Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez applied the IMF\u2019s austerity measures, a massive wave of protests broke out throughout Venezuela that were suppressed by the country\u2019s armed forces, resulting in the deaths of roughly 1,000 to 3,000 civilians. By 1992, a young lieutenant colonel named Hugo Ch\u00e1vez attempted a military coup against Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez because of the IMF\u2019s polices, Caracas\u2019s subservience to Washington, and the failure to reinvest oil revenues to benefit working class Venezuelans. <\/p>\n

Should Delcy Rodr\u00edguez continue to bend to Trump\u2019s orders, perhaps her government will one day be forced to deal with its own version of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez. <\/p>\n

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