{"id":1370,"date":"2026-01-08T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:21:35","slug":"venezuela-amid-a-hyper-imperialism-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Amid a Hyper-Imperialism Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Petrodollar to the Abduction of Sovereignty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republic of palestine<\/mark><\/a> \u2013 Editor for Latin American Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read<\/strong> in<\/strong><\/mark> arabic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read in spanish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has unfolded in Venezuela<\/a> <\/strong>cannot be read as an isolated incident, nor as a passing episode in a conventional dispute between a \u201cdefiant\u201d state and an enraged empire. What we are witnessing is a violent condensation of a global moment in which politics intertwines with economics, currency with force, and sovereignty with punishment. It is a moment in which imperialism is redefined\u2014not merely as direct occupation, but as a comprehensive system for coercively managing the world when market mechanisms fail, persuasion is exhausted, and violence becomes the final guarantor of order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the mid-twentieth century, U.S. hegemony has rested on two inseparable pillars: borderless military superiority and a global financial system that ensures permanent demand for the dollar. The 1974 agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia to price oil exclusively in dollars was not a simple energy arrangement; it was the founding act of a new planetary order\u2014the petrodollar system. This system allowed Washington to finance its deficits, its wars, and its global network of influence through a currency that does not obey the natural laws of the market, but rather the rules of power and coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this equation, Venezuela<\/a><\/strong> was never just another oil-producing country. It was a structural anomaly is the system established by Washington. It holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world and, at the same time, chose\u2014gradually yet with unmistakable political clarity\u2014to exit the compulsory orbit of the dollar. Accepting the yuan, opening to the ruble and the euro, building payment channels outside the SWIFT system, and seeking accession to BRICS were not technical adjustments or neutral financial calculations. They were acts of sovereignty, carrying an explicit political message: breaking free from the regime of financial coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is where the logic of punishment begins; Recent history makes clear that breaking the dollar\u2019s monopoly over the energy market is not an \u201ceconomic experiment,\u201d but an imperial red line. When Saddam Hussein fell in 2003, that was not because of \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d that never existed, but rather because he considered selling oil in euros. As for Muammar Gaddafi when he proposed the gold dinar, he was not murdered because he was a \u201cdictator,\u201d but because he dared to imagine an Africa outside Western monetary hegemony. Each time, the narrative was ready: democracy, terrorism, drugs. And each time, the outcome was the same: oil returned to the dollar\u2019s orbit, and the state was forced back into obedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is happening in Venezuela<\/a><\/strong> today is the reproduction of this pattern\u2014but under far more dangerous conditions. The world is no longer unipolar, and the petrodollar no longer enjoys the immunity it once did. Russia sells an increasing share of its energy in non-dollar currencies. China is constructing parallel payment systems. BRICS is evolving from an economic bloc into a project of monetary sovereignty. In this context, Venezuela\u2014with its immense oil reserves\u2014becomes a critical accelerator of de-dollarization, not a marginal actor that can be easily contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this perspective, the military operation and the abduction of the Venezuelan president cannot be understood as a legal response to an alleged \u201ccrime.\u201d They must be read as a strategic message addressed to the entire Global South, written in the language of force rather than law:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberation from the dollar is not an economic option\u2014it is an act of insubordination, and it will be punished.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is here that the contours of what can be called hyper-imperialism<\/a><\/strong> come into full view: a phase in which the empire no longer confines itself to governing through markets or diplomatic influence, but deploys a complex arsenal\u2014sanctions, blockades, hybrid wars, legal piracy, elite recycling, and even direct military intervention\u2014to reengineer the choices of states from within, while preserving the fa\u00e7ade of \u201clegality\u201d and \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this framework, political shifts across Latin America\u2014including the rightward turn in Chile\u2014<\/strong>cannot be understood as purely domestic phenomena. They are part of a broader regional recalibration that once again pushes the continent into the role of a \u201cbackyard.\u201d Just as Chile served as an early laboratory for neoliberalism imposed by force in the 1970s, it is now being reshaped into a laboratory of soft electoral authoritarianism: a formal democracy whose policies aim to reassert control over resources and shrink the margins of sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trajectory cannot be separated from Palestine, which stands as the most complete model of contemporary colonialism. Just as Venezuela<\/a><\/strong> is today administered through sanctions, blockades, and financial piracy, Palestine is governed through naked force. In both cases, repression is marketed as a prerequisite for \u201cstability,\u201d the pursuit of sovereignty is criminalized, and submission is presented as the rational and responsible choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we are witnessing is not the end of history, but an open collision between a system in decline and another that has yet to fully take shape. When an empire is forced to resort to military power to defend its currency, this is not a sign of strength, but an admission of crisis. And when the nations of the Global South see that those who step outside the dollar are bombed or abducted, the message may ultimately invert itself: liberation becomes an existential necessity, not a negotiable option.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuela<\/a> is not the beginning.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is the signal of the end of a system that can no longer impose itself except through violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The open question today is not whether the world will change, but how much that change will cost, who will pay the price, and who will dare to pay it first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) Hyper-imperialism:<\/a> is the highest form of imperialism, representing a condition in which resources and markets are controlled through the military power of dominant states.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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