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After months of Washington – with the help of much of the US mainstream media – manufacturing consent for a military intervention in Venezuela, last week American forces abducted the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and flew him to a prison in New York City. Now, the Trump administration is shifting the narrative away from the stated objective of striking a “narco-state” to the US taking control of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves.
Contributors:
Alejandro Velasco – Associate Professor, NYU
Alexander Main – Director of International Policy, CEPR
JM MonteBlack – Venezuelan-American journalist
Luis Valdez Jimenez – Lawyer and Venezuelan- American activist
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