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“Venezuela is the poster child of everything the US empire fears,” said Norton during the interview, “a revolutionary project that is not only trying to seek sovereign control over its natural resources and kick out US multinational corporations, one check… The second box being checked is that Venezuela has always been, since the revolution, a key voice in Latin American regional integration.The third check is that Venezuela has tried to integrate Latin America with Asia and Africa as part of a larger Global South project. The fourth check is that Venezuela, in particular, has very close relations with both China and Russia and military cooperation, not just economic and political cooperation… So the US has been desperate to try to destabilize and overthrow the Venezuelan government for many years.
