Venezuela

Venezuela hit a seven-year export high in May 2026, shipping 1.25 million barrels per day — a 61% year-on-year surge. The comeback is being framed as a recovery story for state oil company PDVSA, but behind the record numbers lies not Venezuelan sovereignty — it's a Washington-engineered regime change and a deliberate transfer of control over oil flows to American and Western traders.

What This Story Is Really About

When Simón Bolívar warned that the United States seemed destined to plague the Americas with misery in the name of liberty, he could not have imagined that one day it would be precisely a government bearing his name that would silently, gradually, and calculatedly open its doors to the influence of the very power it had spent decades denouncing as its principal enemy.

In a land where the majestic Andes meet the Caribbean Sea, where Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, plunges from the sky onto the lost world of the tepuis, lies a country of striking contrasts: Venezuela. This land is blessed with the world's largest oil reserves but cursed by political turmoil that has transformed what was once a prosperous state into a stage for dramatic events.