According to the CIA World Factbook, as of January 2018, Venezuela had the largest proven oil reserve of any country, including Saudi Arabia, with 302.3 billion barrels. . ..…

They would make Venezuela the new Pinochet-era Chile. Trump is not alone in supporting Saudi Arabia and its Wahabi terrorists acting, as Lyndon Johnson put it, “Bastards, but they’re our bastards.” . ..…

It also overlooks major violations of international law and human rights (see Israel; Saudi Arabia) if those countries provide it with some benefits. . The people of Venezuela do not need to be schooled in the art of democracy by a country whose government doesn’t know the meaning of the..…

By late 2015, China's expected growth rates had been cut half, to 6 or 7 percent, in turn, triggered in the price of oil and other raw materials, destabilizing economies Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and elsewhere.47. ..…

A factor too seldom included in the common narrative on Venezuela’s economic crash is the apparently intentional meddling of oil prices by Saudi Arabia and its allies that apparently aimed at hurting Iran (Cooper, 2014) as well as other oil dependent countries such as Venezuela..…