{"id":210125,"date":"2026-02-11T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210125"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:02:38","slug":"us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210125","title":{"rendered":"US strike on Venezuela: It\u2019s always been about the oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Sam has never changed his imperial interest; he just became more transparent under Donald Trump. It has always been about American strategic interest above all else. The illegal extraction and capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and taking over the country might be the least bloody act of annexation in colonial history&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/opinion\/us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Sam has never changed his imperial interest; he just became more transparent under Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil.jpg",1497,886,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-300x178.jpg",300,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-768x455.jpg",640,379,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-1024x606.jpg",640,379,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil.jpg",1497,886,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil.jpg",1497,886,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-1024x606.jpg",1024,606,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210125-us-strike-on-venezuela-its-always-been-about-the-oil-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}