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If you believe that President Donald Trump’s pursuit of Venezuela is all about Venezuelan oil, you would be right.

US President Donald Trump's administration said Wednesday it will dictate decisions to Venezuela's interim leaders and control the country's oil sales "indefinitely" after toppling Nicolas Maduro.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the United States will sell Venezuelan oil “indefinitely” after completing sales of the crude currently accumulating in storage there. Wright said the proceeds from those sales would be "deposited into accounts controlled by the U.

Investors are starting to raise doubts about how much oil Venezuela really has and whether it could be profitably extracted. Venezuela’s oil has long been tantalizing—and problematic. The country’s headline number is 300 billion barrels,