{"id":499756,"date":"2026-01-07T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:58:20","slug":"why-trump-is-fixated-on-venezuelan-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499756\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/oil-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Venezuela has roughly 17 percent of the world\u2019s known oil reserves, but it produces only about 1 percent of the crude oil the world is using. Our energy reporter Rebecca F. Elliott explains.<\/p>\n<p>By Rebecca F. Elliott, Melanie Bencosme, Nikolay Nikolov, Sutton Raphael, James Surdam and Lazaro Gamio<\/p>\n<p>January 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil Venezuela has roughly 17 percent of the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7263,7261,224322,405,403,5226,5225,92550,5228,5227,224321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32322],"class_list":["post-499756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-chevron","tag-exxon-mobil","tag-internal-open-access-from-nl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-oil-and-gasoline","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115855825734202356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}