In-Q-Tel Is CIA Venture Fund
It sits on important Wall Street boards and started Google and Facebook.
The Q in In-Q-Tell is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.
http://billlawrenceonline.com/in-q-tel/
The Mexican War started because the treaty set the border with Texas as the Rio Grande after it won independence but when it joined the union the Mexicans said Rio Grande just meant "big river" and was the Nueces.
We said bust the deal face the wheel sent troops over the Nueces and war started.
The Mexicans were not going to keep Norte California no matter what. Even the Brits and the Russians had eyes on it.
Regarding New Mexico, Arizona etc. they might have had it on the map but it was really the Comanches who owned it. When the Comanches got bored they raid Mexico proper for slaves.
>It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.
It sure won't hurt Venezuela either. You know the real push for regime change there is coming from its neighbors getting swamped with refugees right? Not to mention those 100s of thousands citizens marching in the street.