Heh so the plan was to snatch a dude, openly declare it's about oil and control, and then just hope that the rest of the country will just accept this? Boy are Trump and his pals masterminds
Reality - Roughly 2/3 - ~67% - of known hydrocarbon reserves are located in the North American continent. Venezuela is a modest ~17-18%.
If anyone should be invaded for world oil security - it's us.
We only have capacity for 2m barrels a day, we produce 6m a day. It goes down south for processing.