Will Joe Biden Let Venezuelan Strongman Nicolás Maduro Get A When dictators are in trouble, they often stir up a foreign crisis to rally nationalist support and divert people’s attention from domestic problems. That’s what Venezuela’s hated dictator, Nicolas Maduro, is doing. He’s laying claim to most of neighboring Guyana, which possesses huge offshore oil and gas deposits. Maduro is warning that he will seize what he wants by force.
This segment of What’s Ahead discusses why Maduro thinks he can take advantage of Joe Biden, who needs Venezuela’s oil and doesn’t want to cope with another war, especially in Latin America. Biden’s weakness is begetting an ever more dangerous, lawless world.