Fentanyl isn’t even secondary. It’s all cocaine.
So, you think it’s really about oil?
Wait, are you claiming Venezuela is using oil to finance drug trafficking? Seriously? If you are not profiting off your drug deals and need something else to subsidize your drug biz, you ain’t doing it right!
When you mention "business practices" you should keep in mind this is Venezuela in a formerly prosperous country, where citizens were reduced to eating zoo animals. In a socialist government such as Venezuela, all monetary assets are fungible. Money from sanctioned oil is in the same bucket in a socialist government as money from illegal drug production.
And all "assets" are used to promote ideological goals and power. So it doesn't make any sense to say Oil money is here and Drug profits are here. It doesn't operate the same way we do (or are supposed to) where money is allocated for specific purposes based on the actions of democratically elected officials.
In Venezuela, taxes collected on their own citizens are thrown into that same bucket as oil profits and illegal drug profits. There is no mandate that those taxes from Venezuelan citizens be funneled back into social support programs for farmers or the indigent.
That money is used for what the totalitarian leaders say it should be used for.
In any case, to me, it makes no difference to me whether it is cocaine, fentanyl, meth, or anything else. The entire drug issue is just one facet of the whole issue.
China is trying (with varying degrees of success) to make inroads in central and South America. Many Americans do not realize that at one point, Communist China controlled both ends of the Panama Canal. They get 70% of Venezuela's oil, off the back of American wealth that was stolen (they call it "nationalized", which sounds much nicer)
Just because we have issues with Marxists and Communists in our very own government doesn't mean we can willfully take our eye off the situation in the rest of our own hemisphere (or, in the case of the Biden and Obama administrations, fully support the CCPs advances in these areas.)