Other than the United States controlling the country’s oil revenues, Niko Vorobyov makes the case in The Spectator that not much has changed in Venezuela since the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Vorobyov concludes that not much has changed:

During the Cold War, the United States backed an array of horrific dictatorships, including the Salvadoran death squads and Batista in Cuba, in the name of fighting communism. Now that ideological component is over (Venezuela remains, at least nominally, socialist), but Trump is still determined to reassert America’s might over the Western hemisphere. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised the post-Maduro Venezuela a democratic transition, but for now, Caracas appears to be just another American puppet.

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