U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned oil more than two dozen times in his Saturday press conference , and said that the United States would now “run” Venezuela to extract its mineral riches in order to compensate U.S. firms for losses incurred in prior expropriations in the 1970s and 2000s. He told reporters over the weekend on Air Force One that he had consulted with U.S. oil companies—though not Congress—before and after the strikes on Venezuela.
Apparently the U.S. intervention in Venezuela to stop drug trafficking, despite the arrest and arraignment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on narco-trafficking charges, really was all about the oil.
Apparently the U.S. intervention in Venezuela to stop drug trafficking, despite the arrest and arraignment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on narco-trafficking charges, really was all about the oil.
U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned oil more than two dozen times in his Saturday press conference, and said that the United States would now “run” Venezuela to extract its mineral riches in order to compensate U.S.
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