Venezuela oil and US interest on the news recently (2015)

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?t=0&v=97&l=en
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/obama-declares-venezuela-national-security-threat-150309164808710.html

“US President Barack Obama has issued an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat, and slapped sanctions on seven officials.

According to a White House statement issued on Monday, the new set of targeted sanctions excludes the Venezuelan people and any trade relations with the oil-rich nation and are instead specifically aimed at government officials the US accuses of violating human rights.

"Venezuelan officials past and present who violate the human rights of Venezuelan citizens and engage in acts of public corruption will not be welcome here, and we now have the tools to block their assets and their use of US financial systems," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in the statement.

"We are deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government's efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents. Venezuela's problems cannot be solved by criminalising dissent," the statement said.”

If Barack Obama has given sanctions to seven Venezuelan officials then the government of the US is wrong. My first reason for arguing this is that they used the word “slap” and “slapped,” as if the Venezuelan officials and also the Venezuelans are some sort of subordinate person to the US government. Therefore, they are disrespectful. If the US government is disrespectful then it does not have good moral practice. If the US does not have good moral practice then it should not lead the world, especially countries with more resources than them. If the US should not lead the world, then it should lessen its complaints against others.

If the US accuses of violating human rights then it is being hypocritical. The government of the US tortured many in the middle east in the attempt to establish liberal democracy there, particularly in the replacement of the Islamist socialist totalitarian government of Saddam Hussein. Also, historically, it has tortured many others and invaded and taken what is not theirs. For example, in Guatemala the US government ordered the end of the Communist revolution that was about to occur. Today, still there are many poor - which would have been prevented by Guatemalans’ having more independence over their resources and infrastructure - for example, the electricity generators and the fruit companies, especially the land. If still there are many poor in an area that the US government tried to stop then the US government should not act in the area any more. Therefore, it failed. Therefore, because its world mission is to spread liberal democracy, which is an  ideology of creating prosperity - then it is hypocritical. Therefore,  they shouldn’t interfere with human rights violations.

Venezuela has one of the largest reserves of oil in the world. It should keep it and possibly share it with the other latino countries.