If they didn't want the Americans drilling for their oil (and actually paying for it), why the hell did they let them build all the infrastructure just to rip it off without paying a dime? Someone definitely broke the deal!

I doubt it very much but with decades of the US milking their vast oil reserves perhaps they thought it was the honourable and decent thing to try!

Ditto Iran since 1953 when the CIA removed their democratically elected leader Mossaddegh after he nationalised Irans oil sector.

It may take time, risk and blood to regain your sovereignty but what other honourable path is their for any self respecting nation when you have been serially exploited by an external imperialist power like the USA?

Solomonsatoshi

Did these revolutionaries really think they could just nationalize everything and not face any blowback?