Colorado Oil Companies Pulled Into Trump's High-Stakes Venezuela Push

El Pais

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump wrote in February, paraphrasing a phrase attributed to Napoleon. This week, in an interview with The New York Times, he abounded in a similar idea, responding that the only brake on his military actions would be his own “moral.” This framework is important to analyze the big attack on the oil industry launched in connection with Venezuela’s intervention. With blatant frankness and…

telex.hu

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

Trump says they will decide which companies can enter Venezuela.

ikon.mn

Factuality

Ownership

After the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, US President Donald Trump has expressed his desire to quickly rebuild the country's oil and mining sectors. "This country has steel, it has other important mineral resources. It's a country with a great mining history, but it's rusted and decayed. President Trump will fix all of that and restore it," US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters the day after the operation. Venezuela ha…

DiarioVea

Factuality

Ownership

Contrary to what the President of the United States, Donald Trump, expected, the meeting on Friday, January 9 with representatives of oil companies ended in failure for his plans. Those who heard his "offer" to invest in Venezuelan oil did not show the reaction expected by the one who ordered bombing of Venezuela on January 3, this year, a military action that closed with the kidnapping of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, N…

gamereactor.es

Factuality

Ownership

Donald Trump has urged U.S. major oil companies to invest up to $100 billion in Venezuela, presenting U.S.-led investment as the cornerstone of his administration's strategy following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. In a speech delivered at the White House along with executives from Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, Trump stated that U.S. companies could reactivate Venezuela's "muddy" oil infrastructure and dramatica…