Response to a Facebook post.
<>Venezuela, clearly not a U.S. ally, offers alternative transit routes for drug cartel shipments–after the usual route at Darien Pass and Rio Grande (and Gulf of Mexico) are now blocked by both Mexican and U.S. troops. I believe that.
Venezuela's territory includes major bodies of water such as the Orinoco River, Lake Maracaibo, the Gulf of Venezuela, and access to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It also contains numerous smaller rivers, lakes, and islands, including Laguna de la Restinga, Laguna de Mucubaji, and the Apure and Arauca rivers.
Meanwhile, cartel hook-ups always happen. Not so hard to believe this: Mexican and Colombian drug cartels “arrangement” with Venezuela's Cartel De Los Soles ("cartel of the suns") and Tren de Aragua. ELN and FARC remnants took over the vacuum that Medellin (Escobar) and the Cali (Rodriguez Orejuela bros) cartels in Colombia as well and now they collectively ply the route on Venezuela/Colombia pass. Eastern European human traffickers and the Asian Triad hooked up as well.
Fact: The U.S. is the undisputed top destination for drug contraband and smuggled human market in the world. <>If the U.S. or President Trump wants to “regime-change” (verb) Nicolas Maduro or Venezuela, he could have done it in 2019. Why didn't he? Nic agreed to let U.S. oil refineries and oil companies back in after the Chavez/Maduro tandem kicked them out (the last that was sent out was Helmerich & Payne around 2010). And so Chevron is back in Caracas as Valero and Citgo's shipment partnership with the US was restored.
<>The other important matter: China is Venezuela's top oil buyer. Ergo, Mr Trump's first trade pact with China took place in 2020. Current life: 2025. Trump's trade talks with China is doing fine so far as POTUS relaxed tariffs and buys Chinese rare earths as China did the same with tariffs and resumes buying U.S. soybeans + there is that Nvidia silicon deal with China, which the U.S. per Trump's brokering gets a cut (from Nvidia profit). And after The D shook hands with Japan, SoftBank and Nvidia talked business.
Ergo: Donald Trump's trade playbook will suffer if he negates Venezuela's oil as he lures FDIs to the US. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is the world’s top oil producer, Trump needs more oil for obvious reasons. But he is also intent on weeding cartel power in America. Note that cartels took advantage of the laxity in border controls in the Biden years (record number of illegal crossings in 4 years, some instances, 4,000 to 6,000 a day!) No way these massive breaches would happen without cartel facilitation and narcopolitics in Mexico (before Claudia Sheinbaum sat). Also, Biden abolished the US/Mexico et al anti-smuggling coop Merida Initiative in 2021. Hey, cartels operate like how a corporate giant does.
<>The media isn't giving the people the lowdown for obvious reasons. 🇺🇸☮️🇻🇪
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