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|M&G 06 March 2026
It seems that America would do virtually anything under the sun in its quest for oil.
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The scramble blinds the US to respect for sovereign borders or international law.
When, earlier in the year, President Donald Trump threatened that Washington would “take control of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves” and “recruit American companies to invest billions of dollars to refurbish the country’s gutted oil industry”, the normal world dismissed these as just trademark Trumpian gaffes.
To their utter shock, the comic in the Oval Office topped his cake with an unusual icing — the arrest of a foreign head of state, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured in Caracas and swiftly spirited off to New York to face trial.
This story is from the M&G 06 March 2026 edition of Mail & Guardian.
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