Weird assertions? Or educated assertions. Here you go:
Donald Trump said he would ‘unleash’ the country’s resources.
theconversation.com
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Big oil though, seems less than keen on that idea, appearing to consider
Venezuela too expensive or risky. Exxon Mobil’s unenthusiastic response, describing Venezuela as “uninvestible”, even earned a personal
rebuke from Trump."
Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to leap at Trump’s invitation to join his war on the climate and the international legal order.
www.texasobserver.org
"But Venezuela’s long history of countering U.S. imperial oil adventurism and sanctions—and resulting political instability—g
oes a long way toward explaining why Big Oil firms need such incredible assurances to entice them back into the country that hosts the globe’s largest proven oil reserves."
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela was at least partly driven by oil, but not in the ways most people are talking about.
drilled.media
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1943 – Venezuela passes the Hydrocarbons Law of 1943,
requiring foreign oil companies to give half their oil profits to the state."
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May 2, 2007 – Chavez decrees that all oil projects in Venezuela must be majority owned by the national oil company.
Exxon and ConocoPhillips refuse and their assets are seized; Chevron agrees and stays in the country as a minority partner. Exxon begins exploring offshore Guyana, where it’s held an exploratory license since the late 1990s."
