alt Hacker NewsAll of this is disgusting theft, and is plain old imperialist colonialism. Let’s not pretend there is even a shred of legitimacy to the claims about drugs or whatever - Trump recently pardoned a major drug lord. This is entirely about enriching Trump, his family, and friends. The people of Venezuela will still be left poor but will lose their natural resources.
Venezuelans already have been losing their natural resources. Venezuela's major exportable resource is oil, and guess what happened to that export industry? Sanctions, open-sea piracy (in the guise of drug raids) to seize Venezuelan oil tankers, and regime changes to put puppets to squeeze everything out of an oil-rich nation. The result is poverty, social strife, healthcare woes, etc.