All freedom defenders must welcome former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s arrest as the beginning of a democratic transition process in Venezuela. The economic and political debate often ignores that the Maduro dictatorship weaponized the national oil company to use it as a cash machine to enrich the leaders of the socialist regime and finance the demolition of democratic institutions all over Latin America, creating an international group of allies with the main objective of demolishing the U.S., European, and Latin American democracies from inside.
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How Maduro and His Allies Stole Venezuela’s Oil Wealth
Venezuela’s oil wealth was plundered, and its citizens have seen almost nothing of those enormous riches.

A sculpture of a hand holding an oil drilling rig is pictured outside the state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 26, 2025. Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images
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