We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
While less critical than the injuries, there is often significant environmental impact in the cruder cases of pipeline theft. There also ends up being some pretty bad behavior by the private security / mercenaries hired to try and protect some of the infrastructure.
Clean goverment, effective law enforcement, pro-social behaviors and economic improvements etc all might reduce some of these issues.
No need to dress it up in extraneous LARPing where you have a producer.
Hugo Chavez's rise was definitely a response to US (and other powers) involvement in Latin America. The US did not "do it" (where it is directly causing gas theft). There is more to the history in South America and directly inside Venezuela and what the US was doing.
These issues are much more complicated than "the US never sent troops to Venezuela to fight against drug dealers..."
[edit]: removed assertion that parent was purposefully ignoring history. That was my assumption, not what they said.
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/venezuelan-vic...