Axios reported that the United States is negotiating an ownership stake in Venezuela's oil fields.
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The Rob Carson ShowSep 7, 2026
Reuters, citing Axios, reported on August 27, 2026 that the Trump administration was in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the country's oil resources, and RTHK and the Daily Star carried the same Axios report.
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… Everything that was set up after World War II, from 1945, it's over. Okay, it's over. That order is over. It hasn't worked out well, and then it changed to, okay, let's just keep taking from America, and then we can manage their decline." Wednesday night, Axios reported that the United States is now negotiating an ownership stake, not a lease, an ownership stake, in the Venezuela oil fields: more than a dozen producing fields with something like 90 billion barrels of proven reserves underneath the soil. You think about Maduro, removing Maduro, you realize that is the movement of one chess piece. …
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Supports. Reuters reported on August 27, 2026 that the Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the country's oil resources, citing an Axios report and two U.S. officials.[1]
Supports. RTHK reported that the news site Axios said on Thursday that the US was in talks for an ownership stake in more than a dozen productive Venezuelan oil fields.[3]
Supports. The Daily Star reported that Axios had said the two countries were in talks on a dozen productive oil fields with 90 billion barrels of proven reserves.[4]
Context. Later reporting says the deal was announced with a joint venture, a 35% Pentagon Office of Strategic Capital stake in NABEP, and 100-year rights over fields, so the 'not a lease' framing in the post is not how later coverage describes the arrangement.[2][5][6]
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6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 not rated
- 1Trump administration discusses taking stake in Venezuela oil, Axios ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2White House fills in some details of Venezuela oil agreementapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3US in talks for stake in Venezuela oil, report says - RTHKnews.rthk.hk · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Trump announces deal for huge US stake in Venezuelan ...thedailystar.net · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5U.S. officials defend deal with controversial Venezuelan oil baronaxios.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6oil | Common Dreamscommondreams.org · not rated · cited for: context
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