The deals would allow both companies ​to boost production in coveted oil regions in the South American country, the biggest steps to date toward what US President Donald Trump has said would be a $100 billion effort to rebuild Venezuela's oil industry ‌after decades of mismanagement and underinvestment under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I totally didn’t see that implication: that intentionally borking the Middle-East’s oil-sales would FORCE Trump’s taking-over of Venezuela’s oil production to become THE West’s supply…

    Damn…

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