{"id":47281,"date":"2026-08-30T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47281"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:13:14","slug":"what-we-know-about-trumps-deal-giving-us-access-to-vast-oil-reserves-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47281","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Trump\u2019s deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/08\/30\/what-we-know-about-trumps-deal-giving-us-access-vast-oil-reserves-venezuela\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gray-wmctv-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/2HBUBQGAKBALJFS2ZCDO2WOOQI.jpg?auth=f08a6651d8402cdc534074202224199c3cada276e680eee5b8f51bc9b354f7d7&amp;width=1200&amp;height=600&amp;smart=true\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:214px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venezuela\u2019s acting president,&nbsp;Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country\u2019s oil industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/08\/30\/what-we-know-about-trumps-deal-giving-us-access-vast-oil-reserves-venezuela\/\">What we know about Trump\u2019s deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in Venezuela<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But experts have repeatedly warned that Venezuela\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-oil-prices-trump-0c2c6ede79d550af53e6d3ddb51bfa04\">dilapidated oil infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0will take years and billions of dollars to repair. A substantial boost in production is not expected to happen quickly.<br>&#8230;<br>\u201cVenezuelans will not respect this illegitimate deal and no major US oil company will take it seriously because they know it will not last,\u201d Hausmann said on social media, adding that Rodr\u00edguez \u201chas no legitimacy or constitutional power to commit Venezuela to any such deal.\u201d<br>&#8230;<br>Even with legal and security guarantees, it is not clear that U.S. oil companies \u201cwould be eager to invest,\u2019\u2019 he wrote, noting that \u201cthere simply might be more enticing commercial opportunities on offer elsewhere.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela\u2019s acting president,&nbsp;Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, described the deal as a step toward economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[33,1102,57,32],"class_list":["post-47281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-oil","tag-tfg","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47283,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281\/revisions\/47283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}