In just over a year Venezuela, and the push to oust socialist leader President Nicolas Maduro, has gone from being one of the world’s hottest news headlines to obscurity. The popularity of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is waning. As the December 2020 election date for Venezuela’s National Assembly fast approaches it appears that Washington’s opportunity to initiate regime change in the pariah Latin American state is steadily slipping away. That is strengthening the hand of U.S. antagonists and their proxies in the region , notably Putin’s Russia. Moscow is in the process of achieving what the Soviet Union couldn’t accomplish over four decades during the Cold War, seizing control of Venezuela’s vast petroleum riches. The Latin American country possesses the world’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, estimated to total over 300 billion barrels or 12% higher than Saudi Arabia’s. Venezuela was once an important source of heavy crude oil for […]