Where there are large oil reserves, there is the West, led by greedy Americans, young and old, to amas and exploit.

Venezuela holds the world’s largest oil reserves – about 303 billion barrels, or 17% of global reserves – surpassing OPEC+ leader Saudi Arabia, according to the London-based Energy Institute.

Despite its vast reserves, Venezuela’s crude output remains far below capacity due to mismanagement, underinvestment, and sanctions. Production, which once peaked at 3.5 million barrels per day in the 1970s (over 7% of global output), fell below 2 million bpd during the 2010s and averaged around 1.1 million bpd last year.

Analysts note that any regime change could eventually boost production if sanctions are lifted and foreign investment returns. However, historical precedents in Libya and Iraq suggest recovery is unlikely to be rapid.The United States was formerly Venezuela’s main oil buyer, but sanctions shifted the main market to China over the past decade. Exports halted entirely after the Trump administration’s blockade on vessels entering or leaving Venezuela in December 2025. PDVSA also owns significant refining capacity abroad, including CITGO in the US, though creditors are contesting control through long-standing legal cases in American courts.

France24 report

The masks have fallen and it is clear that they had only one objective: A regime-change in Venezuela, so that they could seize our energy, mineral, and natural resources.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez

Never forget what the West caused in Iraq and Lybia.

Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib said: "A brick taken by force in order to build a house is a pawn for its destruction."

Al Radi says, "This statement is also narrated from the Prophet. It is not strange that both statements are similar since their source is the same fountainhead, and they aim at obliterating one's sins."

May the Venezuelan oil stuck in the American//Western throats.

I said, what I said.