Vera Bergengruen
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262 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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Things are rusting.
There hasn't really been much infrastructure change.
There hasn't been big security changes or government changes.
So they just want to see more of that before they feel comfortable taking the risk of of making such big investments.
And a lot of them really were putting the brakes on this uh with their own statements.
And you know, that really frustrated the president.
And over the last eight months or so, there have been quite a few reforms and and things have been moving, but way too slowly for what he wanted.
you know it's been very striking to hear the president's statements because you know, of course, he hasn't talked much about democracy.
He does kind of revel in being seen as the liberator of Venezuela.
But by President Trump's own telling, the oil has been flowing, and most importantly, America has been hugely benefiting.
I think it's really important to note that you can't separate what's happening in Venezuela from what's happening from the fallout of Trump's decision to go to war with Iran.
It was only a month and a half later that he decided to go in, and the US really got stuck.
Um, you know, the Strait of Hermuz was closed, it really impacted global energy markets, it really impacted the bottom line for many Americans.
and if you notice, every time Trump is asked about Iran, he privates back to Venezuela.
And because he kept talking about it in these really maximalist terms, a lot of the people around him were looking at this and trying to figure out how can we really put some teeth behind this notion that the US is actually accessing all this oil and that it's going to be a long-term thing that is going to benefit the American people.
You know, about six months ago, things really started moving.
They were trying to figure out how they could really accelerate things, how they could, you know, just force more of this investment to happen more quickly, especially if the US oil companies were reluctant.
And they started trying to figure out how they could use the backing of the US government to assure private investors that their investments were worth it, basically.
And who could be someone who could really make this come true for them?
was involved in these talks?
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