2026-08-31
13 分钟Good morning.
President Trump announces an oil agreement with Venezuela.
The Washington Post breaks down how it would work.
"We haven't seen the United States enter into anything like this."
"It's more common to the type of partnership you might see in a Gulf State."
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It's Monday, August 31st.
I'm Yasmine Khan.
This is Apple News Today.
The Trump administration announced a new agreement that would see it take a considerable stake in Venezuelan oil reserves.
It's an unusual arrangement that leaders in both countries are heralding,
but it's one that faces a number of steep logistical challenges and viability questions.
The way this agreement works is that Venezuela's basically giving the United States
what amounts to a century-long contract over 63 billion barrels of its reserves.
Evan Halper is a business reporter at the Washington Post who wrote about the agreement.
President Trump referred to it as, quote, "the biggest oil deal in world history,"
and Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez defended it as having endless benefits for the country.
It's the most direct involvement the US has had in Venezuela's oil industry
since the special forces operation earlier this year that deposed the country's president Nicolas Maduro.