The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil

<p>A visual look at how Washington’s relationship with Caracas has gone from cordial to ‘predatory’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/venezuela-oil-deal-trump-chris-wright">Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism</a></p></li></ul><p>Written in the middle of the last century, the US Department of State memo conveys its message in a curt and undiplomatically honest tone: the glue that binds Washington to Caracas is, and is always

Original reporting by The Guardian · Oliver Holmes, Seán Clarke and Lucy Swan. GridIndex is an aggregation and intelligence layer — full credit to the original publisher.