How the Pentagon Is Getting Into the Venezuelan Oil Business Under Trump

Scritto il 01/09/2026
da Edward Wong, Rebecca F. Elliott and Anatoly Kurmanaev

The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, founded by the Biden administration to give loans to bolster the U.S. defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.President Trump said his defense secretary and secretary of state reached an agreement with the Venezuelan government on securing billions of barrels of oil reserves “through a partnership with private business.”