MOA - In Support Of Regime Change - The New York Times Continues To Disinform Its Readers

 The US also blocked the import of spare parts that Venezuela needed to maintain their oil rigs.

Moon Of Alabama looks at what caused Venezuela's woes. Also, how the MSM feeds the narrative about corruption.

Isn't there something missing in the above? Was the 'decay of the country’s oil infrastructure' really caused by Maduro? Or did the U.S. have something to do with that?

Six paragraphs further down we learn what really is causing Venezuela's problems:

[O]ne of the officials who briefed reporters on Monday on condition that he not be identified said the Biden administration was reviewing whether to lift a raft of economic sanctions that experts believe have cost Venezuela’s government has much as $31 billion since 2017.

The official said that review would assess whether the economic pressure exacted against Mr. Maduro and his government was worth the risk of exacerbating the dire living conditions for Venezuelans.

So it was Maduro's 'corruption and neglect' plus the minor issues of $31 billion practically stolen by the U.S.

MOA - In Support Of Regime Change - The New York Times Continues To Disinform Its Readers

Mark Ames - 

The propaganda around corruption—selectively amplifying  certain types of corruption in order to destabilize official enemies, obscuring the vast ambient corruption in our world—is some of the most effective propaganda of all.