Detention Alex Saab in Caracas, the drug execution of the Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN), with the direct involvement of the FBI, is the most telling reason why the United States exercises effective control over Venezuela.
This is not a hypothesis or an assumption. United States federal agents were operating on Venezuelan territory in coordination with the same intelligence services that had been persecuting the democratic opposition for years.
The statement is clear.
Saab, the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman accused of allegedly embezzling $350 million in criminal public procurement, has been detained in Raul Gorrindueño de Globovision and also approved by the United States Treasury Department.
Both are expected to be released within the next few days.
Que el Interin Gobierno de Delcy Rodriguez Meet two emblematic figures of the Chavista financier and reveal the extent to which Caracas accepted the conditions imposed by Washington after the conquest Nicolás Maduro last 3 black.
Los hechos blan con claridad. In just one month, Rodríguez has released more than three political prisoners, reformed the Hydrocarbons Act to facilitate foreign diversion, signed an agreement to sell five thousand barrels of oil to the United States, and maintains weekly communications with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
The same week we received at the Palacio de Miraflores a Laura Dogspecial state post, while the amnesty bill (which would apply to those detained for political demonstration and the return of confiscated property) went to the National Assembly.
The speed of the concessions is suspicious for a regime that just five weeks ago in Washington openly weakens.
The architecture of this protection is without embargo more transactional than democratic in design.
Rubio detailed the plan in three phases (stabilization, recovery and transition) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose calendar remains deliberately vague.
Venezuela’s oil revenues are deposited in an account in Qatar that is subject to state sanctions: it is the United States Treasury Department that decides how much Venezuela can earn.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy he summed it up in a hot climate, criticizing his own government: “He’s stealing Venezuela’s oil at gunpoint and using that control to micromanage the country.” His response was that the Democratic Party did not seem so annoying when oil they stuffed themselves in China, Russia, Iran or Cuba.
Trump has made no secret of his intentions, that’s for sure. It demands “total access” to Venezuelan crude and has joined forces with executives from Exxon, Chevron and Conoco, along with Spain’s Repsol, to propose a $100,000 million divestment in the sector.
The most disturbing thing is what came out of this ecuación. María Corina Machadothe 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the opposition that won 70% of the vote in the 2024 elections was blackballed by Trump, only to be dispatched with the argument that he “doesn’t have enough apoyo to lead Venezuela.”
Neither Rubio’s plan nor the White House’s actions include helping the opposition or Venezuelan civil society make decisions that should ultimately benefit him. As the Council on Foreign Relations says, Trump’s only clear policy in Venezuela is to control his oil supply indefinitely.
Rodríguez applies, entre tanto a double whammy that Washington doesn’t seem to mind. He publicly states that it is “difficult to take orders” when he is in private with himself.
Trump administration officials remain important to the rhetoric. “Public statements don’t necessarily match actions,” he admits. The woman at Casa Blanca put it in a brutal way: “She’s on the short side and doesn’t have many options to fulfill her.”
Detaining Saab closes the circle. Venezuela has become a state that wants the United States to turn into a country with security forces conducting joint operations with the FBI to cement the nicknames of its former leader.
The oil river is now under state supervision, political leaders are exonerated at the pace set by Washington, and laws are being reformed according to Rubio’s demands. All without elections looking at the actual participation of the people got the latest.
Here is this new Venezuelan order, culminating in democratic elections. At the moment it is a colonial administration with a different name. In any case, a better situation than someone who lived under Maduro’s regime for only a few months.
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