The leader of the South American nation has said Washington is after its oil and gas, and using the fight against drug traffickers as a pretext Washington is seeking to gain access to Venezuela’s natural resources, the Latin American nation’s President Nicolas Maduro has told RT in response to the arrival of US warships off the country’s coast in recent weeks. He dismissed Washington’s claims that it had mounted the effort to combat drug traffickers as a ruse. Last month, the US deployed at