Bolton Dispenses with the Pretense: Venezuela Coup isn’t about Democracy — it’s about Oil.

The National Security Advisor was photographed this week with notes showing ‘5000 troops to Columbia’. He has now said that American companies taking over Venezuela’s oil reserves is the single most important issue and would be ‘good for business’.

This week has been a difficult one for Venezuelans everywhere, regardless of political stripe. Tensions are very high — and very, very personal.

The United States has flatly refused beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro’s attempt to break diplomatic ties and have since seized the U.S. bank accounts of the oil-rich nation.

The White House then gave the state’s assets over to insurgent challenger Juan Guaidó — a development that has brought the oil-rich nation to a dangerous fever pitch.