Erika Beras
speaker
1,065 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Erika Beras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people can reap the rewards.
But beware, because things can change.
If Venezuelans get the sense that they're being taken advantage of, they might take everything back.
Yeah.
Remember the US military bombed Venezuela, removed its former president, put him on an airplane, and is holding him at a jail in New York.
The current US backed president seems basically at the beck and call of the White House.
Not exactly a negotiation.
Yeah, it might be the most cautionary epilogue to this cautionary tale, especially for any oil execs trying to get in on this deal.
This story is about just how bad things can get when an oil exec gets caught in a geopolitical struggle.
In the 2010s, Jose Pereira got a pretty sweet job.
He became president and CEO of Citco, which is an oil company owned by Venezuela and selling Venezuelan oil, but based in the United States.
Yeah.
The Americans thought he was just a Chavista and the Venezuelans, well, eventually they didn't trust him either.
And that got worse in twenty seventeen, when President Trump and the successor to Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, really started going at it.
Sanctions from Trump, harsh words from Maduro.
Next morning, he and five other executives fly to Caracas.
They give their presentation.
It goes well.
He says they were from Maduro's counterintelligence unit, the folks who rounded up Maduro's political prisoners.
One of them approached him.
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