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Trump's Venezuela Oil Plan Faces $100B Cost, Decade Timeline

Following Maduro's capture, the U.S. plans to invest billions to restore Venezuela's oil infrastructure, aiming to revive production from the world's largest crude reserves.

  • Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will "run" Venezuela until a transition to a democratically elected government occurs after the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
  • Trump stated that "very large" American oil firms will invest billions to repair Venezuela's "badly broken infrastructure."
  • Analysts believe the repair of critical infrastructure in Venezuela could take years for oil to be produced and exported successfully.
  • Trump's plan aims to strengthen U.S. energy dominance while leveraging Venezuelan oil reserves.
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Venezuela is sitting on one-fifth of the global oil reserves – and America's president is convinced that some of them belong to the US. After Maduro's fall, are US companies now taking command in the depraved oil industry?

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Politico broke the news in on Saturday, January 3, 2026.
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