
US casually adopts Venezuela like a new startup, oil reserves included
Oil exports from the OPEC country – whose deposed President Nicolas Maduro and first lady were abducted by US forces on Saturday unleashing a deep political crisis – remain at a standstill following the announced US blockade of all sanctioned tankers going in and out of its waters and the seizure of two oil cargoes.
President Trump said the US would for now manage the South American nation of about 30 million people plus its oil reserves, the largest in the world. But he gave few details of how.