The visit of Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his assertion that Venezuelan oil will be managed in coordination with the United States introduces the central element of the new scenario: energy as a stabilizing mechanism and, at the same time, as an instrument of a tutored state.
There’s no talk of annexation or formal occupation, but rather operational supervision to ensure oil flow, contain structural corruption, and prevent military or insurgent fractures. Venezuela enters an unprecedented phase: formal power remains in the hands of Chavistas, but real power operates under external supervision. Following the capture of Nicolás Maduro and the provisional assumption by Delcy Rodríguez, what’s presented isn’t a classic democratic transition, but a functional interim meant to prevent state collapse.
Rodríguez’s public letter isn’t an ideological manifesto; it’s a declaration of political survival under strategic pressure.
Has Chavismo ceased to govern and simply administers external orders? Are the Rodríguez siblings the internal interveners of the tutored state?
Cabello’s latest statements show him as a symbol of hardline Chavismo lacking real power? Is the transition not democratic, but functional?
The triumvirate composed of the Rodríguez brothers and Diosdado Cabello represents a capitulation of 21st-century socialism to a state tutored by the U.S. to safeguard their lives, assets, and what little power remains, based on a letter given to leaders of the already defeated military and political regime?
Is the U.S. dismantling the regime from within in three phases? This places Venezuela in an unprecedented scenario: a country where formal power is still Chavista, but real power lies in the hands of a process internationally tutored by the Trump administration.
Don’t miss our latest release of Realpolitik: From 21st-Century Socialism to the U.S.-Tutored State: The Decline of Chavista Power That the Rodríguez Brothers Hide.
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