{"id":15108,"date":"2026-09-01T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/01\/the-biggest-oil-deal-or-theft-at-gunpoint-u-s-claims-majority-control-of-venezuelas-oil-reserves-democracy-now\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:31:10","slug":"the-biggest-oil-deal-or-theft-at-gunpoint-u-s-claims-majority-control-of-venezuelas-oil-reserves-democracy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/01\/the-biggest-oil-deal-or-theft-at-gunpoint-u-s-claims-majority-control-of-venezuelas-oil-reserves-democracy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela&#8217;s Oil Reserves Democracy Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/9\/1\/venezuela_trump_oil_grab\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/08\/83408\/w320\/SEG1-Trump-Oil-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seg1 trump oil 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two months after <em>The New York Times<\/em> revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the <em>de facto<\/em> viceroy of Venezuela, effectively controlling Venezuela\u2019s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. The new oil deal gives the Department of Defense a 35% stake in a joint U.S.-Venezuelan private company that now holds 100-year leases to 17 oil fields. It also gives the U.S. the right to buy some of the oil produced at cost \u2014 a major triumph for the Trump administration as the war on Iran depletes the United States\u2019 strategic oil reserves. Venezuela\u2019s acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez claims U.S. investment in Venezuela\u2019s oil industry will jumpstart the country\u2019s floundering economy, but critics, including Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodr\u00edguez, say the deal is not only \u201cunfavorable to Venezuela\u201d but also appears to violate the Venezuelan Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole history around this is extremely shady,\u201d adds Rodr\u00edguez, who previously led Venezuela\u2019s Congressional Budget Office and now teaches at the University of Denver. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that this is not a deal that any Venezuelan government would have entered into unless this country had been subject to an invasion, and unless its authorities had been held at gunpoint. So, I think we\u2019ve replaced gunboat diplomacy now for gunpoint diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/9\/1\/venezuela_trump_oil_grab\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/08\/83408\/w320\/SEG1-Trump-Oil-1.jpg\" title=\"The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? 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