Trump & the US oil-igarchy want to 'run Venezuela.’ How is Latin America responding?

Trump & the US oil-igarchy want to 'run Venezuela.’ How is Latin America responding?

Published: January 5, 2026

Duration: 38:09

In the early, pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, the US invaded and bombed the sovereign country of Venezuela, and kidnapped Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and the First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores. This is the first time the United States has used its own military to invade a South American country, and President Trump made the purpose of the invasion very clear: oil. What will happen to Venezuela’s government now? What will be the geopolitical fallout in the Western Hemisphere from this stunning act of imperial intervention? How does this period of US intervention in Latin America compare to p...