(full interview, his wife Cilia Flores can be seen in the backseat)
This comes despite N.Maduro agreeing to the u.s. pillaging their oil.
No point in arguing that it has nothing to do with drugs(, so many videos talking about it, Grayzone since 2020, even Rand Paul), not even western journalists seem to buy this lie.
They used their oil to improve the lives of their citizens instead of enriching only the wealthiest venezuelans complicit of this robbery by the u.s. for decades before Chávez. And then we(sterners) talk of sovereignty.
(source)
But i.m.o. oil is also an excuse, as it was for Iraq. The problem here is that socialism is contagious(, just like anti-zionism was contagious in the Middle-East).
Venezuela was set to lead latin american countries in economic growth, much more than the regional average of 2.9%, they survived the harshest phase, sanctions became inefficient, but the capitalists-owned empire doesn't allow socialist countries to be successful :

The worker's exploitation has to continue at all costs and this is more important than anything, imagine if the wealthiest lost their passive income and had to work like everyone else, that's what has always been fought against i.m.o., whether in the Cold War or as far as the discussions of the bourgeois during, e.g., the french revolution, on the importance of keeping the right of property.
We can't build a world where everyone is 'a capitalist'/'exploiting other workers while lazing around', that's why they hate anarchy, or Venezuela.
Needless to point out that the US won't suffer from "international"(western) sanctions, the assets of D.Trump and american oligarchs won't be seized, there will be no sports/cultural/.. boycott, closure of US medias, freezing of the bank accounts of pro-americans, ...
(oops, sry)
An interesting account/website among others : https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/reimposing-democracy-in-venezuela-decoding-western-propaganda
I know the fascists won't care, but how will the libs react when losing Maduro doesn't topple the "authoritarian Venezuelan regime" and the people stay loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution?
(It's a rhetorical question, I know they won't even try, their brains will automatically sanitize such thoughts from entering their consciousness)
I'm hopeful that Venezuela's socialist experience has guided them towards the development of a more resilient political framework compared to the fragile liberal democracies of the west. This will be the ultimate test for them, and here I am, hoping they succeed
One of the most important pillars, the military, is fully radicalized and committed to the Bolivarian revolution. That means the US can't get away with this one without a fight.