4 Nov 2025 – The US is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. The slogan shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” but the objective is the same: control of Venezuela’s oil. The methods are familiar: sanctions, threats of force–and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West, the epitome of gangsterism.