Trump Announces US-Venezuela Deal for 65 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves. Here's what each side is saying, and what none of them are telling you.
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📰 THE FULL STORY
President Donald Trump announced that the United States has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of more than 65 billion barrels of the country's proven oil reserves. Writing on social media, he called it the biggest oil deal in world history. Trump said the agreement was negotiated at his direction by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, working with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez and a private business partner, at no cost to the American taxpayer.
According to a White House official, the deal grants the United States 55% effective output of a new private joint venture that would be the second largest private oil company by reserves in the world, with Rodriguez granting a private company 100 year concessions for the oil fields. Rodriguez said the deal calls for development of 17 strategic oil fields, over 100 billion dollars in investment, and more than 209 billion dollars in taxes for Venezuela.
Rubio said the agreement would bring nearly 100 billion dollars in private investment to Venezuela, support thousands of high paying jobs, and lead to lower gas prices in the United States. Trump said the deal will more than double American oil reserves, increase oil supply, and substantially lower gas prices. He said the oil bought would go toward filling the US strategic petroleum reserve and military use.
Venezuela has an estimated 303 billion barrels of crude oil in the ground, about 17% of the world's supply, but currently produces only about 1% of the world's oil due to dilapidated infrastructure. Analysts including David Goldwyn and Rachel Ziemba expressed skepticism about the deal's impact, noting no precedent for such an arrangement and citing Venezuela's political uncertainty and weak infrastructure.
⬅️ HOW THE LEFT COVERS IT
Left coverage foregrounds that Trump made the announcement while key details were missing, noting that the private sector partners and how the arrangement would work were not provided. It emphasizes the gap between Venezuela's estimated 303 billion barrels in the ground and its current output of only about 1% of the world's oil due to dilapidated infrastructure, and it lays out the specific White House claims of 55% effective output and 100 year concessions without treating the promised gains as settled. (HuffPost, CNN)
⬛ HOW THE CENTER COVERS IT
Center coverage treats the announcement as a claim to be scrutinized, pairing the official figures with analyst skepticism. It foregrounds that David Goldwyn and Rachel Ziemba questioned the deal's impac
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