Error of judgment? US President Trump’s scramble for Venezuelan oil coincides with transition shrinking appetite for fossil fuel
Experts caution that a number of realities – including international oil prices and longer-term questions of stability in the country – are likely to make this oil revolution much harder to execute than Trump seems to think.
Trump gloats over capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, expected to be tried in US for drug trafficking
President Maduro was captured by a team that included elite US Special Forces, including the US Army’s Delta Force, a US official said. Republican US Senator Mike Lee said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told him Maduro would stand trial on criminal charges in the US and that no further action was anticipated inside Venezuela.
