"It is no secret that Venezuela, unlike Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, is targeted for regime change by the US precisely because of Venezuela’s leadership
in resisting US hegemony and the imposition of the neoliberal model in Latin America.
And of course, Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, attracting more unwanted attention from Washington."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/ANALYSIS/13716
Someone should tell these VenAnalysis guys that the US is currently the world's largest producer of oil, and starting to export it. Plus, Mexico and Saudi are not exactly short on oil either.
Background to the OAS/Almagro controversy (All I know is meagre stuff via wiki, but it is clear he has upset his former Uruguayan comrades like Mujica the old left president) ;
Almagro is a former Uruguayan minister under Mujica, who went so far as to publicly break ties in response .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Front_(Uruguay) The 'Broad Front' government is a coalition of left and centre , but Almagro apparently was a member of Mujica's own left party MPP (the biggest one in the coalition) and has been criticsed by that party itself also (see below)
2015_11
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticia...e45462255.html (Florida spanish language website apparently)
More detail
http://www.contrainjerencia.com/?p=112045
'The former president of Uruguay and current senator José Mujica broke relations with his former Foreign Minister Luis Almagro, current Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), by the letter in which he questioned the electoral process in Venezuela.
"I regret the course you took and I know it is irreversible, so now I formally say goodbye and I say goodbye," says the letter that was announced today by the weekly "Búsqueda", from Montevideo.
Mujica's criticism is added to that of its political sector, the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), which also includes Almagro, and on Saturday said that the letter from the head of the OAS "not only does not help the electoral process that lives the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela but it contributes to delegitimize it and to hinder the democratic coexistence in that country ".
Mujica went further last year ;
https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Accio...0430-0022.html
'For the Uruguayan exmandatario, the actions of Almagro from the OAS are a danger not only for Venezuela but for the continent.
Former President of Uruguay José "Pepe" Mujica said that the radical actions of the Venezuelan opposition and the actions of Luis Almagro from the Organization of American States (OAS) are a danger to the country and the region.
In an interview with the Uruguayan portal Caras y Caretas, Mujica said that the Venezuelan right-wing acts in a radical and "irrational" manner. ' ..
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