Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.

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0:00 US war on Venezuela

1:16 (CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil

1:28 Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves

1:37 US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó

2:08 US support for dictatorships in Latin America

2:36 Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths

2:59 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine

3:31 Psychological war

3:58 (CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"

4:54 US war plans

6:15 "Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist

7:44 Marco Rubio: war planner

8:20 US military buildup in Caribbean

9:26 CIA operations in Venezuela

10:18 Three options in US war plans

11:36 Chevron wants Venezuela's oil

12:26 Imperialist "Americas First" policy

14:11 War on Terror plus War on Drugs

14:44 Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war

16:03 US government is an oligarchy

16:30 Coup leader: María Corina Machado

18:01 Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars

19:17 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil

19:44 (CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit

20:38 Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump

21:24 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

22:01 (CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado

22:13 US government supports Machado

22:49 (CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support

23:41 Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets

24:22 (CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"

25:35 Machado's USA-first foreign policy

26:02 (CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran

27:59 Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua

28:40 (CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua

29:18 Machado's Bloomberg interview

29:40 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources

30:21 Privatizations create oligarchies

31:12 (CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again

31:50 US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann

32:49 Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs

35:32 Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family

36:21 Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch

37:04 Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire

38:02 María Corina Machado conspires with USA

38:44 (CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support

39:53 Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate

40:26 (CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war

40:56 Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars

41:25 (CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war

41:59 Summary

43:19 Outro