Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake

特朗普喝着委内瑞拉的鸡尾酒

Planet Money

2026-09-05

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One week ago, President Trump announced a deal that would give the “U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer.” The exact nature of this deal has been … obscure, to say the least. But today, we wanted to know, from someone who’s been through this before, what does this mean for Venezuela? José Ángel Pereira Ruimwyk is both optimistic … and wary. He’s a longtime Venezuelan oil insider. When Venezuela invited in foreigners, decades ago, he was there to greet them. And when Venezuela wanted them out? Well, that’s how he ended up in a jail cell.  On today’s show, we’re going to hear from one third-generation Venezuelan oilman who has seen everything … up until this, of course. Check out our other episodes about Venezuela:   - Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty - How Venezuela imploded  Read:  - Our book: Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life  - Our weekly longform Planet Money newsletter - Our weekly Indicator round-up newsletter Follow:  - Instagram - TikTok - YouTube - Facebook Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org. This episode was hosted by Nick Fountain and Erika Beras and produced by Emma Peaslee with help from Sam Yellowhorse Kesler. It was edited by Marianne McCune. It was fact checked by Emma Peaslee with help from Sierra Juarez. It was engineered by Josephine Nyounai with help from Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money’s executive producer.  See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • It's been one week since President Trump got on Truth Social and announced that the United States of America

  • had just entered into an agreement with the country of Venezuela on the biggest oil deal in world history.

  • This announcement was a little vague on the details, but more have come out since.

  • According to the White House, the U.S.

  • Government, through the Pentagon, might be buying a stake in a Venezuelan oil company.

  • The Venezuelan government is going to give that company the exclusive right for 100 years to extract

  • oil from 17 of its oil fields.

  • And the U.S.

  • Will get a bunch of that oil for cheap.

  • So, yeah.

  • Eight months after Trump ordered the capture of the leader of Venezuela and told oil execs,

  • we're going to be extracting numbers in terms of oil like few people have seen, the U.S.

  • Government is apparently in the oil biz.

  • We didn't know what to make of this.

  • Venezuela, as we've talked about on the show before,