The United States, hiding behind the struggle for human rights and concern over the political situation in Venezuela, is trying to dictate its terms. In fact, the United States does not want to miss the economic benefit and wants to protect itself from the “Russian threat” that they see in everything.
2019 began with another political scandal, which could not do without the participation of the United States. This world power strongly supports the self-nominated candidate Juan Guaido, who decided to become president of Venezuela. Why America indulges the desire of this speaker of parliament in his desire to take the post of head of state, why Trump’s cabinet interferes in the politics of a neighboring country - we’ll figure it out right now.
Venezuelan crisis and what America is afraid of
US intervention is taking place against the backdrop of Caracas's internal problems. Venezuela has large oil reserves and exports almost 95% of black gold. But recently, the price of oil has fallen noticeably, which negatively affected the country's economy.
Against the background of this situation, internal political conflicts have intensified. Some noticed that the "Venezuelan Maidan" began, but it could not do without US intervention.
Juan Guaido decided to take the post of head of state, removing the current president of the country, Nicolas Maduro. In this self-nominated candidate supports Trump's office. In fact, it is not so important for the US government who will rule Venezuela, the main thing is to give preference to the most accommodating candidate and remove Maduro.
The current ruler of Venezuela in good relations with Russia. Our country makes quite large investments here. But not only does this bother America, it is also trying to solve the "Chinese question." After all, the investment of this country in the Venezuelan economy in 2017 amounted to $ 50 billion, while Russian investments were at the level of $ 17 billion.
The United States cannot allow the state assets of this Bolivarian Republic to fall into the hands of China or Russia. After all, America considers Venezuela a profitable gas station, which is located nearby.
It is known that Russia is the main supplier of weapons for Venezuela. Our countries have signed an agreement that sets out the points of military cooperation.
The US is afraid that Russia will establish its military bases in the Bolivarian Republic, in the immediate vicinity of the "great power."
Sanctions
Recently, this word is familiar to every Russian. America loves to impose sanctions against objectionable countries and specific citizens. The same applies to Venezuela, some of its inhabitants. But it all began long before the collapse of 2019.
United States relations with this neighboring country began to deteriorate under Hugo Chavez, who led Venezuela from the late twentieth century to 2013. Then he was replaced by Nicolas Maduro, who to this day is the legal president of the country.
But with the new head of state, the US government not only could not establish relations, but the differences that existed before that only intensified.
American leaders do not miss the moment to not talk about the problems of Venezuela. They include here: non-observance of human rights, the presence of Colombian groups, the problem of drug trafficking and terrorism.
They began to punish the unreliable and rebellious country during the reign of Barack Obama. The vice president of America has applied sanctions to members of the Venezuelan government. The leaders of the US parliament decided to freeze assets and prevent some countries from visiting those who, in their opinion, violate human rights in the Bolivarian Republic.
Trump went even further. Four decrees signed by him strengthened sanctions for some legal and natural persons of Venezuela.
