No Blood for Oil! - Poster of the Week
- politicalgraphics
- Jan 9
- 3 min read
[American Flag with Oil Rig]
Blood for Oil
Offset, Circa 2000
United States
80233
Poster text: www.BloodForOil.com
Over the weekend, The Trump administration invaded Caracas, seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and killed at least 80 people in the process. Maduro and Flores are currently imprisoned in New York charged with “narco-terrorism.” Since the abduction of Maduro, Trump has announced the U.S. will run Venezuela and take over its nationalized oil industry.
The hypocrisies and lies are endless:
In the past, Trump promised an end to an “era of endless wars,” yet he has launched military strikes on Iran, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia, provided aide to Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza, and has now performed a regime change in Venezuela, with additional hints that countries like Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Greenland are next.
Since last September, the U.S. government has been bombing boats in the Caribbean, claiming they were fentanyl-carrying drug boats from Venezuela. The Trump administration never provided proof to the public of these claims. Further, though genuine efforts of restorative justice should be praised, his administration has contradicted its tough-on-drug-traffickers stance by freeing multiple drug traffickers, including:
○ Ross Ulbricht, creator of a “dark web” site used by drug traffickers called Silk Road;
○ Garnett Gilbert Smith, a Baltimore drug kingpin responsible for distributing more than 1,000 kg of cocaine in less than two years;
○ Cesar Humberto Lopez-Lario, a high-ranking leader of MS-13;
○ Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in New York of narcotrafficking, and sentenced to 45 years in prison before being pardoned by Trump last month.
The Trump administration has tried to justify its permission to “run” Venezuela by arguing that Maduro, as a dictator, doesn’t align with American values. American values are supposed to include self-sovereignty and democracy, but this weekend’s acts included neither. Instead, the Trump administration told oil company executives about the plan to depose Maduro before it happened, while Congress knew nothing about it. Moreover, Trump actively supports and befriends other dictators, like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Mohammed bin Salman. Like the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, this is not about democracy or justice, it’s about controlling foreign oil for profit.
The administration’s focus on narco-terrorism, deflects from a bigger issue. China is currently doing more trade with Latin American than the U.S. Trump’s attack on Venezuela sends a warning message to China to stay out of “our” backyard. There is a also a domestic intent: deflect attention from released Epstein files which tie the president to Jeffrey Epstein, a human trafficker, child sex offender, and serial rapist.
CSPG's Poster of the Week, made during the invasion of Iraq, reminds us of what happens when the U.S. government pretends to “fix” other countries while profiting off their oil reserves. The peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya continue to suffer from American warfare in the name of oil.
No more blood for oil!
No more U.S. imperialism!
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