Palast on the US coup in Venezuela

He said in his FB post:

"The Koch’s have giant refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. They can’t use Texas oil because it’s not heavy and filthy enough, so they have to take almost all their oil from Venezuela.

But Chavez, who was really bright man, was squeezing the Kochs by the cojones and charging them a premium for his oil. The Kochs have been going crazy — they were losing money at their refinery because of the price.

So they had two choices. Buy Tar Sands gunk from Canada, via the XL Pipeline, but it’s taking too long. So what do you do? You better overthrow the government of Venezuela with some guy named Juan Guaido who said, and I quote, 'I will open up the Venezuela oil fields to American companies.'"

Part 1 is below. Part 2 is here.