... Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil has provoked outrage in her country. ...
On Sunday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: "One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves ...
But the deal has provoked outrage, both among members of Venezuela's opposition and within the Chavismo political movement of which Rodrguez is part.
Speaking on Friday, one prominent opposition figure, who asked not to be named, called the agreement "a massive land grab" by a "rapacious, mafioso United States".
Writing on X, Rafael Ramrez, the former head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA, accused Rodrguez's administration of "driving a dagger straight into the heart of the homeland" with the "neocolonial" transaction. "They are handing over 65bn barrels of our reserves to the United States. That has never happened in Venezuela, and I think nowhere else in the world," Ramrez added in an interview with the newspaper El Nacional.
On Saturday, dozens of leftwing protesters marched through Caracas with banners reading: "We are neither a colony, nor a back yard" and "Yankees go home!" ...
Is the high-sulfur, sour Venezuelan crude oil suitable for the storage in the salt caverns of the SPR?
"At times, he (Trump) seems to get off on human suffering".
Bingo.
All those horror movies you've seen? They were warning you about people like Trump.