Venezuela Under US Occupation – Orinoco Tribune<https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-under-us-occupation/>
By Gary Wilson – Jun 15, 2026 There is no honest way to discuss Venezuela today without starting from US occupation. This occupation wears modern clothes. It uses Treasury licenses, frozen accounts, oil permits, blocked payments, prison cells, military threats and control over state revenue. Washington has seized decisive functions of the Venezuelan government while pretending that Venezuela acts freely. The US military kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores on January 3, 2026. Maduro remains Venezuela’s president, held in US custody in New York. Delcy Rodríguez governs as acting president under conditions Washington imposed. Venezuela’s oil policy, financial channels and access to revenue now operate under the supervision of the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. OFAC functions as a shadow finance ministry over Venezuela. Its licenses decide which oil contracts move, which companies operate, who can buy oil, who can ship it and where the money goes. That is occupation in modern imperialist form. The gunboat remains. So does the threat of US military force. But the Treasury license, the frozen bank account, the blocked payment channel, the secondary sanction and the US-controlled oil account have become weapons of rule. Caracas chooses from what Washington permits. Marco Rubio and the State Department want the world to see something else. Their story says Venezuela’s present course comes from deals at the top, betrayals, private negotiations, oil contracts, and political maneuvering. It places Delcy Rodríguez at the center and pushes US imperialism into the background. That frame serves Washington. It turns coercion into consent. It makes concessions forced by pressure look like free choices by Caracas. It hides occupation behind diplomatic language.... ..... The Bolivarian Revolution has suffered a military defeat and now operates under US occupation. But it has not been politically defeated. The revolution still lives in the organized people: the communes, communal councils, CLAP committees, workers’ organizations, women’s and youth movements, social missions, popular militias, and neighborhood networks built over decades of struggle. These structures have been battered by sanctions, migration, wage collapse and the pressure of occupation. They have lost resources. Many have lost cadres. Some have been weakened by bureaucracy and survival deals made under siege. Yet they remain real forces in Venezuelan society. They organize food distribution, local production, public services, neighborhood defense, political mobilization and demands on the state. They are the living base that US imperialism has not been able to erase. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42159): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42159 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119935377/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
