Seven months after Washington orchestrated the removal of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's vast oil reserves have been quietly reintegrated into the American energy economy — more than half a million barrels a day now flowing to Gulf Coast refineries built precisely to receive them. The arrangement speaks to an old pattern in hemispheric relations: a nation rich in resources finds its fortunes managed, at least in part, from abroad. What remains unresolved is whether this partnership will serve Venezuela's people or simply exchange one form of dependency for another, as billions in oil revenues acc