Inside the U.S. Deal to Get Venezuela’s Oil
President Trump announced a controversial and unprecedented deal to secure U.S. access to Venezuelan oil by having the Pentagon take a 35% stake in a private Venezuelan oil company, bypassing traditional diplomatic and legal channels. The move is framed as a national security and economic
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