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February 5, 2021
President Nicolás Maduro seeks to rapidly boost Venezuelan oil production by one million barrels per day (bpd), threatening to ravage the ecologically sensitive Orinoco region. To achieve the increase, he would reverse Chávez’s oil reforms, which extended Venezuelan sovereignty over its natural resources and captured super-profits that would otherwise have flowed to transnational oil companies.
Chávez was an outspoken critic of capitalism and global warming, telling the Copenhagen summit on climate change in March 2013 that “climate change is undoubtedly the most devastating environmental problem of this century,” and that “current human activity exceeds the threshold of sustainability, endangering life on the planet.” In the same speech he warned that global inequality remained a major obstacle to achieving a sane and rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as globally “we are profoundly unequal.”