Vera Bergengruen
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262 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
Vera Bergengruen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The debate since this deal has been announced, and it's been really furious in Venezuela and with a lot of the exile community living on the outside, is whether this is in any way a valid deal.
And when you speak to White House officials and to US officials, they argue that that's why they did it through a private company.
The Trump administration is very adamant that they are not signing this deal with Delcy Rodriguez.
They are making this deal with a private company, and that private company is dealing.
dealing with the Venezuelan government and that is how they're getting around all of these tricky legal questions.
We have seen a really interesting reaction, especially from some Republicans, many of whom are rather hardliners when it comes to the current Venezuelan government, which all of them were in agreement for decades was a government they didn't want to deal with.
We've seen a lot of Republicans reluctant to criticize the deal itself because they don't want to criticize the president, but really uncomfortable with the fact that this is entrenching Delcy Rodriguez as.
As the ruler of Venezuela for a very long time, given that now the US practically has a financial stake in keeping her in power.
We saw Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, you know, cautiously praise the deal.
But say that none of this is going to work if there aren't fairer and free elections really soon.
From oil executives who spoke to us, US oil companies were not very happy with this.
And it was largely because they weren't willing to take the risk at the speed and scale that the president wanted.
And now they could basically find themselves competing against a company backed by their own government.
So they're all trying to figure out what this means, even though none of them have really announced that this changes their plans.
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For American consumers right now, this basically means nothing.
And we're seeing the administration really hammering home this is going to be great.
But American consumers from this deal are not going to see or feel anything for many, many, many years.
Uh again, all of this is a potential oil that is still underground, and it's going to take a very long time to really benefit American consumers.
Currently, Venezuela is producing about as much.
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