The Energy and Geo political tangle between United States and Venezuela

Since the advent of the American nation in the aftermath of the American war of independence, America has historically been following the Monroe Doctrine. Monroe Doctrine is a heady proclamation that the regions and nations west of the Atlantic belong to an undeclared sphere of influence owned by the United States of America. US along woth pother continental ntions too have believed in the aggrandization and the astrategic augementation of their spheres of influence since the middle ages and US is not an exception to the rule of domination and domineering which gets reflected in its policy with South America.

As far as United State’s policy vis a vis South America is concerned, it has been observed as a consistent narrative of augmenting the interests of certain totalitarian regimes along with the surreptitious realm of drugs and smal arms laundering. Venezuela is a nation which is one of the prime suppliers of oil and energy products to the rest of the global polity and given the past precent of United States intervening in the Latin America, the Venezuelan concern calls for scholary attention. As the US is very much harmed by the traditionally at large menace of Drug trafficking in Latin America. The American intrusion of two oil tankers of the order of the Evana, has opened up the strategic game in the region. The actions and the sanctions heaped by the Ptrez Trump Regime happen to be of the order of mitigating the mence of Drug Trafficking which has introduced a palour of gloom and anarchic despodemcy in the manner in the manner with which United States tackles the South American mojo.

The Venezuelan Ptesident Maduro expressed his concern in the context of the American sanctions that US and President Trump ought to zero in upon their own decline and the related challenges to Anerican pelf, prosperity and disdain instead of intervening in the internal domesticitries of the nations such as Venezuela.
To be frank, it has been a larger and confusied [power of Chinese checkers, where in the US stringently attempted a Regime change when it was Hugo Chavez who ruled the roost in Carcacas. The US establishment supported the political opponent of JHugo Chavez as Chavez’s tilt was toeards the left wing ideological and policy denomantion. Us has orchesterated a whole set up of Ameriocan warships near the Venezuelan waters where in one is aptly reminded of the operation against Manuel Noreiiga in Panamma. Thus, still, though the official Trump’s policy sytatements might contend othderswose, the praxis if Regime change remains the order of the day as gfar as the spat with Venezuela is concerned.

The fact of the matter which needs to be understood is that the White House establishment has been presurrising President Maduro with the strategic objective of making Caracas sell its enetgy products and oil primarily to the United States of America. While Caracass majorly intends to sell its wares in the energy segment to otherer nations too with China being an eminent reciepient of Venezuelan oil and energy trade offs. Apart from the bland energy gains , as US is already an energy superpower, the emergence of a friendly ally in the steed of power in Caracas is more than a mere icon with symbolic ramifications but it reflects a geo economic, geo political and strategic victory too, in the western hemisphere for an anxious Washington. Though United States has emerged as a global energy superpower with advent of the Shale Revolution still the “process of oil” in United States of America needs a friendly supply trough in South America.

Caracas believes that much of the Vnezuelan oil still lies in a much impoverished society. Thus, the manner in which the American oil trade avalanche is all set to overwhelm the resources of energy in the South American nation, does not accouter the Venzuelan domesticity with the leeway and the breathing space to develop its nation and its attendant concerns of its bereaved and challnaged population. What has happened is that in the aftermath of the American sanctions, Caracass has been locked out of the global conglomerate of a market and has been forced to sell its oil wares with warts and all to the hungry for oil Beijing.

As part of a literray metaphor, the textual narrative of Gabrial Garcia Marquez’s, “ One Hundred years of Solitude,” the American pandering and dalliance with the natural resources in Venezuela is akin to a moored ship overladen with moss and foliage which the local village folk percieve with fear and awe. The manner in which Uncle Sam and other external interventionists intend to run riot in a not so sleepy but yet an underdeveloped ecosystem, is an apt analogy to the advent of modernity and the “ ingress” of the developed. The contemporary state of affairs in the South American periphery might not amount to a undisturbed and unsheated village Republic, still the stealth and the initiation of an induced and probably exploitative roadmap can come to become the “Ides of US led development”. Still, it can be argued conclusively, that the Trump administration associates its energy trade with its technicalities of clean technology which Chinese offers are generally berefy of. Still, the Trump establishment needs to ensure its markets with nations such as Venezuela so that its surplus pipelines with Mexico and Cananda do not end up unutilized.

Though a petro economy which Washington boasts of can be vulnerable to the ingress of suppliers such as Russia. Still, all in all, it cab be safely argued that the augmentation in the US oil and gas exports might make Russia and to an extent Venezuela to loose out on their power levers in the global narrative in the context of both a discourse and praxis. And lastly, US might be better advised to attnd to its digital economy too taking some heat away from its vulnerable Shale oil dominance.

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