From Palestine to Venezuela: Chevron Profits From U.S. Imperialism

On Saturday morning, Trump bombed Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, and forcibly captured President Maduro in an illegal military operation conducted without congressional authorization. The U.S. military killed dozens of civilians, military personnel, and officials in the strikes.¹

Trump isn’t even hiding why he bombed Venezuela.

At his press conference, he said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela, “rebuild the oil infrastructure,” and “take out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.”² He openly discussed U.S. oil companies going into Venezuela to extract and sell the country’s oil—the largest proven reserves in the world.³

This war is about seizing Venezuela’s wealth and handing it to Big Oil corporations like Chevron, which are already being enriched by rising stock prices after Trump’s attack.⁴ All in the interest of U.S. imperialism.

Chevron is first in line to profit from Trump’s oil grab.

The same corporations that donated millions to Trump’s campaign.⁵ The same corporations that have been lobbying for access to Venezuela’s oil for decades. Trump’s aide Stephen Miller explicitly framed Venezuela’s nationalization of its oil industry in the 1970s as “the largest recorded theft of American wealth,” revealing this administration’s true goal: corporate plunder.⁶

Chevron is also notoriously the primary energy provider for Israel, and a major international target of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement since 2022.  

In this critical moment from Venezuela to Palestine, we must step up the Boycott Chevron campaign across the world. Sign the pledge to Boycott Chevron and get involved now.

Chevron is the only U.S. oil company currently operating in Venezuela.

Chevron is one of the world’s most environmentally destructive corporations, with a long history of harming people and the planet. 

While Palestinians in Gaza freeze in flooded tents, Chevron supplies nearly half of the electricity to Israel.⁷ While Trump threatens Venezuela with more U.S. bombs, Chevron is first in line to profit from Trump’s oil grab as the only U.S. oil company currently operating in Venezuela.

This imperial boomerang is aiming for the U.S. Gulf Coast.

If Venezuelan oil production is increased, it is likely that more Venezuelan heavy oil would be imported by U.S. Gulf Coast refineries, largely located where Black, Latino, Indigenous, and low-income communities are already exposed to devastating levels of fossil fuel pollution.

It’s all connected. This is the same pattern of U.S. imperialism and corporate greed that has devastated countries around the world for decades. Meanwhile Trump is threatening to attack Iran (known for its large oil reserves), Colombia, and Cuba. He warned that he’s “locked and loaded” to intervene in Iran after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister and ICC-wanted war criminal Netanyahu last week.⁸

Take a stand against Big Oil’s profiteering from genocide and war.