Many of the media sources and pieces of policy analyzed included elements of both neocolonialism as well as exoticism. This manifested itself most clearly with the idea of the “white savior,” in which the U.S. otherized and looked down upon the darker-skinned bodies within Venezuela and believed the country could be “fixed” with American economic and governmental approaches. Many of these neocolonial approaches would benefit the U.S. financially and politically while hurting Venezuela, but this could be tolerated as Venezuelans were seen as exotic and expendable. The U.S. deemed Venezuela both corrupt, undemocratic, violent, and dependent on America as well as a place of enormous opportunity for the extraction of natural resources, advancement of American international hegemony, and political influences. This section shows how these views and the themes of exoticism and neocolonialism often intersected within American media and U.S. policy.