Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun lokacin da gwamnatin George W. Bush ta fara a shekara ta 2001, dangantakar dake tsakanin Venezuela da Amurka ta tabarbare sosai, yayin da shugaban kasar Venezuela Hugo Chávez ya zama mai sukar manufofin kasashen waje na Amurka. An san Chávez da maganganun sa na adawa da Amurka. A wani jawabi a Babban Taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, Chávez ya ce Bush ya inganta "democracy na ƙarya na fitattu" da kuma "democracy of bombs". Chávez ya yi adawa da mamayar da Amurka ta jagoranta a Iraki a 2003. Chávez ya kuma yi Allah wadai da shigar da sojojin NATO suka yi a Libya
, yana kiranta da yunkurin Yammacin Turai da Amurka don sarrafa man fetur a Libya.