According to misionverdad.org: "The main US target was not Venezuela's oil reserves, but rather the currency in which they are traded. By breaking the commercial and financial blockade and negotiating crude oil outside the dollarized system, Venezuela opened a real breach in the petrodollar monopoly that had existed since 1974."

A few weeks ago one of our druidge.com contributors pointed out that Nicolas Maduro's illegal abduction was to benefit other OPEC countries.

*** Venezuela's Acting President: "Basta! Enough US Orders! ***