Chad Scott

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9,764 appearances 31 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Chad Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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American Power · Did Trump Get Played on Venezuela’s Oil Deal? · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

We're repeating history. voice-verified

But the fact is, is in 1999, after all these deals were done, after all the investment was taking place, Hugo Chavez came to power and he passed all these new hydrocarbon laws requiring Venezuela's oil companies to, or excuse me, all these oil companies to basically increase their royalties to PDBSA, which was the state-owned Venezuelan oil company. voice-verified

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Eventually in 2007, Chavez drops the hammer and says, you know what? voice-verified

You got you guys have to give sixty percent of your companies over to Venezuela, or there's gonna be consequences. voice-verified

All of the British and most of the American companies kind of said, Okay, fine. voice-verified

Xon Mobile and Conical Phillips say no, we're not doing that. voice-verified

Chavez takes control of them anyway. voice-verified

So and these guys go to courts of arbitration international courts of arbitration. voice-verified

They win. voice-verified

They win against Venezuela, but of course we're not seeing a dime of that. voice-verified

There's something like thirteen or fifteen billion dollars that is owed. voice-verified

I think they've regrouped maybe seven hundred million dollars of it. voice-verified

What we have to understand here is Delcy Rodriguez is the same person when it comes pull to politics as Maduro and Chavez. voice-verified

She's a s she's a Shavista. voice-verified

She's not Maria, the Maria Karina Machado, she who was supposed to be, she was the one that was a part of the party that was elected and uh Maduro and then Maduro was overthrown. voice-verified

We all thought that Machado, Karina Machado was going to come back and be this Western partner. voice-verified

No, they put Delcy Rodriguez. voice-verified

This is a woman whose family roots are deeply embedded in Venezuela's revolutionary left. voice-verified

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