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10.09.26 - 18:42
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Big Take: Trump′s Venezuela Oil Deal (Bloomberg)
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The Pentagon is taking a stake in a private Venezuelan oil company in what President Trump called “the biggest oil deal in world history.” On the Big Take podcast we break down what we know about the plan so far and what may be the motivation behind it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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09.09.26 - 20:18
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The Guardian view on Donald Trump′s oil deal: Venezuela pays for his vanity | Editorial (The Guardian)
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The US president seized a nation's natural wealth in a modern-day version of gunboat diplomacy to feed his ego – not to lower Americans' fuel billsImperialism does not require a flag to be planted or a governor dispatched. It can be a powerful nation deciding who governs a smaller, weaker country, and on what terms and for whose benefit its resources will be developed. Donald Trump's kidnapping of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, putting his deputy – Delcy Rodríguez – in his place as president, and then her signing a deal handing a fifth of the country's proven oil reserves to the US, amount to a modern version of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy. Regime change supplied America's commercial concession.This won't bother Mr Trump. But it should. The US president has oversold his neocolonial spoils. The additional production Venezuela is supposed to bring online might bring down oil prices eventually, but not anytime soon. Crucially, what Mr Trump calls “the biggest oil deal in history” won...
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05.09.26 - 05:36
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Trump team quietly closed probe into businessman eyed by US to broker Venezuela oil deal (Times of India)
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The Trump administration sought Alejandro Betancourt's help for a major US oil deal with Venezuela. Federal prosecutors recently closed their investigation into Betancourt after administration officials intervened. Betancourt was investigated as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and laundering from PDVSA. His position shifted as the administration sought a larger role for US companies in Venezuela's oil industry....
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01.09.26 - 14:57
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Trump′s Venezuela Energy Gambit A ′Major Problem′ For Europe (ZeroHedge)
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Trump's Venezuela Energy Gambit A 'Major Problem' For Europe
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
In the end, it happened as it had to: The United States will likely play a decisive role in the future development and marketing of Venezuela's oil and gas reserves.
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a corresponding deal on his Truth Social platform, describing it himself as "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY." According to the U.S. president, the United States secured “majority U.S. control” over more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela, spread across 17 oil fields – and, as Trump emphasized, “at no cost to the American taxpayer.”
BREAKING NEWS: The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY! At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected… pic.twitter.com/lLl44Fp7cs
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