The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil

A visual look at how Washington’s relationship with Caracas has gone from cordial to ‘predatory’Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticismNobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil dealWritten in the middle of the last century, the US Department of State memo conveys its message in a curt and undiplomatically honest tone: the glue that binds Washington to Caracas is, and is always likely to be, oil.“All US policies toward

Source: The Guardian (World)