Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to help his country counter “growing and illegal threats” from the United States and its president, Donald Trump.

In a letter to fellow members of the bloc of major oil-producing countries on Sunday, Maduro accused the US of trying to “seize” Venezuela’s oil reserves, the world’s largest.

“I hope to count on your best efforts to help stop this aggression, which is growing stronger and seriously threatens the balance of the international energy market, both for producing and consuming countries,” Maduro said, according to a copy of the letter published by state broadcaster TeleSUR.

Maduro also “formally denounced” the “use of lethal military force against the country’s territory, people and institutions”, both to OPEC and the larger group of OPEC+ countries.

While Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, estimated at 303 billion barrels as of 2023, it exported just $4.05bn worth of crude oil in 2023, far below other major-oil producing countries, in part due to US sanctions imposed during the first Trump presidency.

Along with Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Latin American country was a founding member of OPEC in 1960, with its members cooperating to control oil supply and influence the price of oil in the decades that followed.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/1/ve...nter-us-threats

In the end OPEC gonna ask, what Venezuela have to offer?

This post has been edited by Mixxomon: Dec 1 2025, 03:26 PM

little did maduro knows opec most are US allies...

Imagine such embargo on say tw. War lor.

In Latin America.... Sorry lor. It's USA's backyard. Everything is allowed.

This post has been edited by Wedchar2912: Dec 1 2025, 03:29 PM

Fall8ng into US trap....
Opec gonna ask for free oil which back hand also US....

He himself is no saint.

the only way they can be safe is they suddenly have a few hundreds of nuclear warhead ready & deployed, else everyone will want a piece of the cake and make the call for all decisions

when you have the worlds largest oil reserves and you are in the backyard of the world biggest and most powerful army and largest consumer of oil. good luck.

Thanos USA be like

Their only hope is china, russia and north korea jer

Others are neutral or siding with US.

OPEC more happy if go war, they can sell higher price.

This.

That's how useless BRICS really is. They are not united.

manuro u should commit sudoku jer,every 1 hates u man

Amboi amboi u baru 1 leg masuk hell gates now ask ppl commit sudoku pulak.

BRICS is playing the long economic game, not a military alliance that plots wars that US love to play. If BRICS plans work out, it will disable US ability to wage wars or proxy wars beyond its borders.

Dia tak tau Trump baru settled with MBS ke?

You see whether Saudi Arabia will layan Venezuela or not. Saudi is BRICS member....

But but but chosen ppl protest trump want sell f35 to Saudi… say can’t trust because they have growing relations with ccp. Secrets not safe

Deswai BRICS is a joke. They all dun trust one another.