John Otis
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80 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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The agreement would give the US government majority control over sixty-five billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves.
It was signed by Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez.
She was vice president for authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, who was ousted by US troops in January and has refused to call new presidential elections.
That's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in a video on social media.
She's made efforts to forge ties with the Trump administration, but says that only a freely elected government can provide guarantees to foreign investors and bring about strong economic growth.
For MPR News, I'm John Otis.
People now, it's it's really quite jarring to see their current president uh cozying up to Trump and to Chevron.
Uh now critics claim that uh new oil deals uh are the result of Trump's gunboat diplomacy uh after removing Maduro and are are therefore unconstitutional.
But others say Venezuela needs the foreign investment.
Uh the oil industry is in terrible shape and is pumping just one-third of what was produced back.
Yeah.
People now it's it's really quite jarring to see their current president uh cozying up to Trump and to Chevron.
Uh now critics claim that uh new oil deals uh are the result of Trump's gunboat diplomacy uh after removing Maduro and are are therefore unconstitutional.
mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they don't know their costs.
In a social media post, Trump called the agreement, quote, the biggest oil deal in world history.
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Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, said it will allow for the development of 17 fields in Venezuela with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels of oil.
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Under the agreement, the U.S.
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would partner with an unnamed private company to develop the
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Reserves.
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Rodriguez said the deal would help revive Venezuela's oil industry, which had fallen on hard times after years of mismanagement, corruption, and U.S.
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