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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You know how sometimes you need help, but you don't like it when you get it?
That has been the story of Venezuela's oil industry and outsiders.
They have this long history of opening up to foreign investment and then shutting down again.
Opening up and shutting down again.
And as Jose has been following the news out of Venezuela this week, he has been thinking about the lessons he and his family have learned, as they've watched Venezuela open its vast reserves of oil to foreigners and then decide to shut them out.
Jose kind of led the charge of the apertura.
The last time Venezuela opened its doors to foreign investment in their oil sector.
And I'm Erica Barris.
There's been a lot of coverage of this evolving deal between the US and Venezuela.
Some great stuff from our colleagues here at NPR about what the US hopes to get from this and whether it'll work, the climate impacts.
Today on the show.
What does this mean for Venezuela?
We're gonna hear one take.
The take of a Venezuelan oil man who's been through all this before.
experiences.
His generational experiences.
Remember, he's a third generation Venezuelan oil man.
And from each of those generations, you can get these picture-perfect little snapshots of the long drama-filled history of Venezuela's oil.
From a time when foreigners reigned to denationalization and back and forth again.
This, of course, was the first era of Venezuelan oil, foreign control, which eventually Venezuelans got tired of because too little money from their labor and their resources were going to them.
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