Blatant colonialism: Trump says USA will 'run' Venezuela and take its oil

Blatant colonialism: Trump says USA will 'run' Venezuela and take its oil

Author: Ben Norton January 6, 2026 Duration: 36:46
After the US military bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said "we're going to run the country", potentially for years. "We're in the oil business", he added, boasting that US corporations will exploit Latin America's natural resources. Ben Norton reports. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZHOuHUboeY Topics 0:00 (CLIP) Trump: USA will "run" Venezuela 0:48 US coup attempts in Venezuela 1:55 Trump bombs Venezuela 2:44 Trump boasts of taking Venezuelan oil 3:17 Colonial Monroe Doctrine 3:46 Trump: "we're going to run the country" 4:23 Oil in Venezuela 5:08 Trump press conference 6:00 (CLIP) Trump's colonial plan 6:32 Years of US occupation? 7:23 (CLIP) US plan to pillage Venezuela 8:43 (CLIP) Boots on the ground 9:22 (CLIP) US oil corporations 10:00 Critical minerals & rare earth elements 10:37 Wall Street vultures 11:41 Venezuela's oil belong to Venezuelans 13:18 (CLIP) Trump: "They stole our oil" 13:55 Trump threatens more attacks 14:41 Casualties of US strikes 15:18 (CLIP) Trump threatens officials 15:47 Trump supports drug trafficker 16:42 (CLIP) Pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández 17:32 US Special Operations forces & drugs 18:32 US imperial plans for Latin America 18:57 (CLIP) Asserting US "dominance" 19:27 Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine 20:16 (CLIP) Trump invokes Monroe Doctrine 21:11 China & Cold War Two 23:39 Threats against Cuba 25:11 (CLIP) Marco Rubio threatens Cuba 25:49 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro 26:22 (CLIP) Threats against Gustavo Petro 26:34 US sanctions Colombian president 27:15 War Secretary Pete Hegseth 28:04 (CLIP) Hegseth threatens the world 28:48 (CLIP) Hegseth: Oil and dominance 29:15 (CLIP) "Peace through strength" 29:33 General Dan "Razin" Caine 30:16 (CLIP) US military threatens the world 30:31 Invader invokes "self-defense" 31:18 (CLIP) US military claims "self-defense" 31:37 Trump's Freudian slip 32:03 (CLIP) "Precise attack on sovereignty" 32:16 Marco Rubio, warmonger 33:11 (CLIP) Do what USA says, or else 33:40 Rubio wants to pick foreign leaders 34:33 (CLIP) "President of peace" 35:02 Trump has bombed 10 countries 35:40 US empire intervenes across planet 36:32 Outro

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