HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Editores Latin Petroleum, 30.Aug.2026, Words: 2200) — Who needs free and fair elections in Venezuela when you can skip straight to the end of the movie and sign a “historic” oil deal with Washington?
In the Venezuela of 2026, the carefully constructed, 2-decade narrative of Chavismo has not just cracked — it has imploded. The very political current that spent years warning that the “far right” would hand over the homeland to the “Yankee empire” has now done precisely that, only with better production-sharing terms and upbeat press releases.
