{"id":88956,"date":"2026-01-06T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88956"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:16:08","slug":"why-is-the-us-taking-control-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/06\/why-is-the-us-taking-control-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the US taking control of Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the US <del>invasion \/ regime change \/<\/del> taking control of Venezuela all about? This is from The Telegraph this morning, in an email news alert:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Venezuela push<\/h2>\n<p>British investment firms are preparing to pile into Venezuela, betting that Donald Trump\u2019s toppling of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro will trigger a resounding economic revival.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and asset managers in London are among those preparing to snap up debt, stocks and invest in property and companies across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are betting that Venezuela\u2019s socialist \u201cChavismo\u201d system will soon be dismantled and replaced with American-style capitalism, triggering an economic boom that could define the decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, now we know. It is all about providing an opportunity for hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, quite a lot of me believes that might well be true.<\/p>\n<p>In the battle between financial capitalism and the people, financial capitalism is winning.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Comments\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When commenting, please take note of this blog\u2019s comment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/about\/comments\/\">which is available here<\/a>. Contravening this policy will result in comments being deleted before or after initial publication at the editor\u2019s sole discretion and without explanation being required or offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the US invasion \/ regime change \/ taking control of Venezuela all about? This is from The Telegraph this morning, in an email<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/06\/why-is-the-us-taking-control-of-venezuela\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,16,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economics","category-ethics","category-neoliberalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88959,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88956\/revisions\/88959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}