A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #203 - What's New - THE CORSAIRS OF THE CARIBBEAN (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

After 300 years, privateering reappears in the Caribbean Sea. This time, 
it's not the English who used it to destabilize the Kingdom of Spain and 
plunder it of the riches it in turn drained to Latin and Central 
America, robbing the indigenous peoples, but the United States itself, 
which has deployed a powerful fleet around the Caribbean coast of 
Venezuela. The excuse is to fight drug traffickers, but so far their 
heroic deeds have consisted of sinking numerous vessels, without any 
verification of what they were carrying or who was operating them, 
probably fishermen. Their operations have resulted in approximately 80 
casualties.
Like men of the prairie, like true cowboys aboard ships, the Americans 
know nothing of the law of the sea and have shot and killed the 
shipwrecked sailors who miraculously survived their bombings, even 
though they had surrendered.
As the days pass and the fleet camps off the Venezuelan coast of the 
Caribbean, the mission's objectives become clearer and more evident. 
Trump's intervention is not solely driven by geopolitical interests 
within the framework of the Monroe Doctrine, which mandates that America 
belong to the United States, but is also clearly aimed at seizing 
Venezuelan oil (the largest reserves in the world) as well as exploiting 
the adjacent and disputed Esequibo territory, a 160,000 km² region 
claimed by Venezuela and Guyana.
To achieve its goals, the United States has offered its protective 
umbrella to Guyana and aims to seize exploitation rights over the entire 
area to control the international oil market and ensure the United 
States can market what is extracted from this extremely rich territory.
Affected by their interests, the Dutch and British, who maintain 
possessions and military bases in the area, have timidly opposed US 
action, strengthened and motivated by Trump's greed. They have made 
their dissent explicit, defending the interests of Shell and British 
Petroleum, two of the world's most powerful oil companies, which already 
have their hands on parts of these fields and aspire to expand their 
sphere of influence, or at least share in the feast.
While the naval fleet is idling, waiting for the CIA to organize fifth 
colonies within the country, perhaps by buying support among the 
Venezuelan military with dollars, the fleet has recently been busy 
boarding oil tankers departing from Venezuela, seizing the precious 
cargo and diverting it to US ports.
At the same time, the battle is being waged between the lobbies 
supporting the interested parties, operating in the corridors of 
Congress in Washington. The Pentagon and the US military seem to be 
aware that setting foot on the ground in Venezuela, a country rich in 
impenetrable forests, carries the risk of becoming bogged down in a 
Vietnam-style war that the United States could not tolerate today. 
Trump's greatest weakness lies in his agent in Caracas, the inconsistent 
María Corina Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, despite being a war 
fomenter and known for explicitly calling for US military intervention.
Although Venezuela's socialist experiment is open to much criticism, it 
certainly does not aim, as Machado does, to hand the country over to the 
exploitation of US imperialism and its multinationals, promising free 
rein to exploit the country in exchange for gaining power for herself 
and the liberal-fascist Venezuelan elite, consistent with the political 
shift sweeping the continent.
The anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist forces in Venezuela deserve 
every support.

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/12/23/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-i-corsari-dei-caraibi/
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