If one is unfamiliar with the history surrounding this issue, try watching videos like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N9-qop-R8M

"keep defending corrupt dictators who collude with russia & iran to own trump"

That's an amazing sentence right there. lol. Many would say 'all of the above' when it comes to being corrupt dictators....
And they are all colluding. No matter how it turns out, there will be no winner.

"Whatever hurts Trump is what I support" - certain people.

"Anyone that says negative things about trump are wrong and radical terrorists." -ot poster

Smearing a foreign regime, then follow up by saying that's why it's ok to invade and take the oil is war propaganda. But, forget that, turn your gaze upon the US national debt of 38 trillion, over 1 trillion dollars annually now is PAID to FOREIGN countries US owns money to. Over 1 trillion.

China just recently announced they broke through 1 trillion SURPLUS a year, while America pays over 1 trillion in INTERESTS ALONE to service its massive debt.

Now also consider, many nations are not buying any more US debt, in fact many are dumping it. China was dumping it slow over time, from here it looked like China doesn't want to get their money trapped like Russia's money is trapped by Europe, but in actuality, many are dumping US debt bonds.

We've been through this, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine to name 4, well in Ukraine, US bombed the Russia to Europe gas pipe lines, then made the dumb Europeans pay for expensive US LNG, and they did, in all cases, did you see any of that money?

Read this [read me],

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Now [read me].

By the time you read th second read me, US debt went up tens of thousands. Stop propagandizing for war. Your politicians are not doing you any favors. Ask yourself, did Osama bin Laden win? He's dead, but did he ultimately win? Because his objective was to backrupt the USA. But HE IS DEAD, so who is backrupting the USA??

It's literally Iraq 2.0 with an even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and poorly manufactured excuse.

maduro kind of looks like saddam hussein and that is mildly amusing

You forgot about harboring foreign terrorists.

I just have one question, why not go after the number one most corrupt country? :O

Originally posted by パエトーン (Belle):

Maduro is a dictator who refused to step down from power after losing an election.

Violently suppressed the ensuing protests and forced millions of venezuelans to flee the country.

Mismanaged the country's economy by putting all their eggs into oil extraction rather than diversifying. AKA low global oil prices caused their economy to collapse.

His government is 3rd most corrupt on earth. So even though the country makes bank from oil, it remains poor. The money does not reach the people.

His cronies facilitate the drug trade that cost thousands of american lives every year.

They expropriated foreign oil assets and investments.

A 2018 Amnesty International report "accused Nicolas Maduro's government of committing some of the worst human rights violations in Venezuela's history". The report found the violence was carried out especially in Venezuela's poor neighborhoods, and included "8,292 extrajudicial executions carried out between 2015 and 2017". In one year, 22% of homicides (4,667) were committed by security forces. Amnesty International's Erika Guevara-Rosas said, "The government of President Maduro should guarantee the right to life, instead of taking the lives of the country's young people."

They are sanctioned for a reason. Their drug cartel affiliated boats are getting struck for a reason.

People who weren't paying attention for the past decade claiming the USA started the hostilities need to do more research.

So what's the deal. Going to keep defending corrupt dictators who collude with russia & iran to own trump?

Chavez and Maduro wouldn't even be a thing if the USA govt & the CIA didn't executed Operation CONDOR, + said folks literally made the blueprint for drug trafficking cartels, via the CONTRAS in Nicaragua. Which as anyone can see it has backfired massively...

If the USA didn't meddle in South America & Central America affairs during the cold war, many of the so called "regimes" & cartels in the region, wouldn't even exist in the first place...

The more they meddle in South America & Central America today, the more problems for future generations of Americans citizens. While the ghoullish old politicians die of old age, without seeing the consequences and collateral damage of their actions...

Originally posted by Houseman:

"Whatever hurts Trump is what I support" - certain people.

That's because every conservative is 10x worse than the people that they criticize. Zero exceptions. In addition to pardoning actual drug traffickers like the Honduras president[apnews.com], he also removed evidence of him being in the Epstein files.[www.axios.com]

They are hypocrites who are incapable of doing good and every decision that they make is a disaster in the long term. They're in no position to kill anyone for any reason when they are selfish corrupt liars who act purely in bad faith.

Originally posted by パエトーン (Belle):

Maduro is a dictator who refused to step down from power after losing an election.

Violently suppressed the ensuing protests and forced millions of venezuelans to flee the country.

Mismanaged the country's economy by putting all their eggs into oil extraction rather than diversifying. AKA low global oil prices caused their economy to collapse.

His government is 3rd most corrupt on earth. So even though the country makes bank from oil, it remains poor. The money does not reach the people.

His cronies facilitate the drug trade that cost thousands of american lives every year.

They expropriated foreign oil assets and investments.

A 2018 Amnesty International report "accused Nicolas Maduro's government of committing some of the worst human rights violations in Venezuela's history". The report found the violence was carried out especially in Venezuela's poor neighborhoods, and included "8,292 extrajudicial executions carried out between 2015 and 2017". In one year, 22% of homicides (4,667) were committed by security forces. Amnesty International's Erika Guevara-Rosas said, "The government of President Maduro should guarantee the right to life, instead of taking the lives of the country's young people."

They are sanctioned for a reason. Their drug cartel affiliated boats are getting struck for a reason.

People who weren't paying attention for the past decade claiming the USA started the hostilities need to do more research.

So what's the deal. Going to keep defending corrupt dictators who collude with russia & iran to own trump?

So why not simp for the Venezuelan government those "drug boats" would have to refuel 20 times to get to Florida. That oil that was seized was not our oil.

Perhaps the current logic is maybe Venezuela can be the 51st state and you can send all the "illegals" there.

Since Russia is expanding then America can also expand under Trump and secure his legacy for future Civilization games as a great leader except for almost all his policies.


From Chat GPT

were us oil companies kicked out of venezuela and were they compensated for being kicked out
Here’s the clearest, evidence‑based answer grounded in the search results you triggered.

🇺🇸➡️🇻🇪 Were U.S. oil companies kicked out of Venezuela?
Yes.
Beginning in 2007, Hugo Chávez’s government forced foreign oil companies — including major U.S. firms — to give majority ownership of their projects to the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Companies that refused were expropriated (their assets were seized).

Two of the biggest U.S. companies affected were:

ConocoPhillips

ExxonMobil

Both refused the new terms and had their assets taken.

This is confirmed in multiple sources:

Venezuela expropriated ConocoPhillips’ Petrozuata, Hamaca, and Corocoro projects in 2007.

ExxonMobil’s Cerro Negro and La Ceiba projects were also nationalized in 2007.

💰 Were they compensated?
Yes — but only after many years of international arbitration.
Venezuela did not voluntarily compensate them at the time. The companies sued Venezuela through the World Bank’s arbitration court (ICSID). After more than a decade of legal battles, the rulings came down:

🟦 ConocoPhillips compensation
ICSID awarded ConocoPhillips $8.5–$11 billion (depending on interest calculations) for the expropriation.

Venezuela repeatedly appealed and lost.

As of 2025, ConocoPhillips is still pursuing ways to collect the full amount.

This is one of the largest expropriation awards in history.

🟦 ExxonMobil compensation
Exxon was awarded $77 million in a 2023 ICSID ruling.

But this was only a small remaining portion because:

Exxon had already received $907.5 million in a separate 2011 arbitration settlement.

So in total, Exxon received roughly $1 billion in compensation.

🧾 Summary Table
Company What happened Compensation
ConocoPhillips Assets seized in 2007 after refusing new state‑control terms ~$8.5–$11B awarded by ICSID
ExxonMobil Assets seized in 2007 ~$1B total from arbitration rulings
🧠 Bottom line
Yes, U.S. oil companies were kicked out (expropriated) during Venezuela’s nationalization wave.

Yes, they were eventually compensated — but only after long, expensive legal battles, not because Venezuela willingly paid at the time.

If you want, I can also break down:

why Venezuela nationalized the oil industry,

how this affected its economy,

or how these rulings impact Maduro today.

A 2018 Amnesty International report "accused Nicolas Maduro's government of committing some of the worst human rights violations in Venezuela's history". The report found the violence was carried out especially in Venezuela's poor neighborhoods, and included "8,292 extrajudicial executions carried out between 2015 and 2017". In one year, 22% of homicides (4,667) were committed by security forces. Amnesty International's Erika Guevara-Rosas said, "The government of President Maduro should guarantee the right to life, instead of taking the lives of the country's young people."

From ChatGPT

Here’s how your summary lines up with the actual Amnesty International findings, grounded directly in the search results you triggered.

🔍 What the 2018 Amnesty International report actually said
The search results confirm the core elements of your statement:

✅ 1. Amnesty accused Maduro’s government of severe human‑rights violations
Amnesty’s 2018 report “This Is No Way to Live” states that Venezuela is responsible for:

Violations of the right to life

Repressive policing using military methods

Serious human‑rights violations, particularly extrajudicial executions

This is explicitly documented in the report summary:
Amnesty found that the state “implemented repressive measures, adopting military methods… that have led to serious human rights violations, in particular extrajudicial executions.”

✅ 2. Violence concentrated in poor neighborhoods
Amnesty identified that the government’s security policies resulted in the “social criminalization of poverty”, meaning poor communities were disproportionately targeted by violent operations.

This matches your description exactly.

✅ 3. Extrajudicial executions
While the search results don’t list the exact number 8,292, they do confirm that:

Extrajudicial executions were a central finding of the report

These killings were part of a systematic pattern linked to state security forces

The specific figure you quoted comes from Amnesty’s full 2018 publication, which documented killings by Venezuelan security forces between 2015–2017.

✅ 4. Erika Guevara‑Rosas’s statement
The search results include a related Amnesty press release where Erika Guevara‑Rosas said:

“Nicolás Maduro’s government must be held accountable before the international justice system.”

This is consistent with the tone and content of the quote you referenced, even though the exact wording in your message comes from the 2018 report itself rather than the 2019 press release.

🧠 Bottom line
Your summary is accurate and consistent with Amnesty International’s findings:

Maduro’s government was accused of some of the worst human‑rights violations in modern Venezuelan history.

The abuses were systematic, state‑directed, and disproportionately targeted poor communities.

Extrajudicial executions by security forces were a major component of the violence.

Amnesty leadership publicly condemned the government’s actions and called for international accountability.

If you want, I can also compare Amnesty’s findings with those of the UN Fact‑Finding Mission or Human Rights Watch to show how closely they align.

There can be 2 negatives at the same time, even when they oppose each other.

To leftists, including marxists, socialists, etc, "muh democracy!" only applies when they're not in power. When it does, they convince themselves that their team doing whatever it takes to hold onto that power is all for the greater good and permitted.