Luis Fajardo
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404 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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Certainly we're talking about a very big deal, according to what uh President Trump said in his social media statement.
He mentioned uh sixty five billion barrels.
That is uh estimated to be s nearly one fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves.
Of course, Venezuela being one of the countries with the biggest oil reserves in the world.
Also, uh Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, was uh posting in social media
Saying that a hundred billion dollars in investment would go to Venezuela.
This is precisely the amount of money that some experts have suggested would be needed to restore the Venezuelan oil industry, which has suffered terribly in the last uh decade or or even more because of mismanagement and all the turmoil that has uh confronted Venezuela in the last few years.
There's certainly going to be some um eyebrows raised in at least parts of the Venezuelan government.
This goes against, of course, the entire ideology of the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro, the people who Delcy Rodriguez, the president of Venezuela, originally uh reached government uh with that with that movement, which was all about economic nationalism and control of natural resources.
This goes in the opposite direction.
But on the other hand, there's gonna be people in Venezuela saying that uh these uh oil resources have been drastically mismanaged in the last decade.
This brought economic chaos to Venezuela, and if this uh oil deal brings uh prosperity again to the country where certainly people will have a a different opinion on that.
It has, but on the other hand, it has been a delicate balance because in many aspects um the the US is working with a government, the Chavista government of of uh Del C Rodriguez, which uh still controls a lot of aspects of domestic life in Venezuela.
There's still, for example, very big criticism of uh political prisoners being still in Venezuela.
So it is difficult to know up
Alex, it is one more step in as you mentioned the continued intense economic pressure that the United States is putting on Cuba.
This round of sanctions affects three officials who were involved in a more political role in an agency that the US says was quote unquote exporting communist subversion to other countries.
And it also involves sanctions to nine agencies in things like the Ministry of Construction, a company involved in nickel mining, which traditionally has been an important source of money for Cuba.
So it is part of a continued
effort by the US to weaken the Cuban economy on top of great restrictions, for example, on oil and fuel and all kinds of things that are causing a great deal of disruption in the Cuban economy.
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