{"id":141659,"date":"2026-02-14T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=141659"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:52:13","slug":"not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just oil, the Venezuela invasion is about preserving the petrodollar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We don\u2019t need Venezuela\u2019s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,\u201d the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer<\/a>\u00a0the day after US troops snatched Nicolas Maduro from Caracas last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States,\u201d Rubio added, going on to name the US\u2019s list of usual suspects: China, Russia, Iran. \u201cThey\u2019re not even in this continent; this is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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