Elizabeth Troval

Eventually, if the war continues, something's got to give, says Lawrence Rasekis with S&P Global Energy.

And that would take the form of high prices, prices so high that for poor countries in Asia.

He says wealthier countries in Europe and Northeast Asia are better situated for higher priced LNG.

I'm Elizabeth Troval for Marketplace.

At La Pradera Latin Market, a clean, well-lit store inside a dingy strip mall, you can buy Venezuelan coffee, chocolate, and cheese.

Lidilin Castellanos pulls a soft white cheese out of the fridge, along with a container of special cream.

Well, she shows me around while one of her regulars stops by.

Castellanos opened her shop in 2019 to cater to a Venezuelan population that has grown to roughly 75,000 people in the Houston metro area.

So many of them live in the small suburban city of Katy.

It's sometimes called Katy-suela.

Castellanos and her husband chose Katy for the good schools and affordable homes.

But this recent wave of immigration is not how Houston's relationship with Venezuela started.

Before Houston received tens of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, it was Americans who sought opportunities in Venezuela.

In this training video from the 1950s, an American father is assigned to work in Venezuela's oil fields and is writing back home to his wife.

In Houston, Rice University professor Francisco Monaldi, who's from Venezuela, often meets Americans who worked there decades ago.

And now that the U.S.

government wants to develop Venezuela's oil sector, we may start to see this dynamic again.

Monaldi says U.S.

companies are seeing which Venezuelans in places like Haiti might be interested in going back to Venezuela to work in the oil sector.

A stint back in Venezuela at a big oil company may be attractive for some, but for Lady Lynn Castellanos in Haiti...