This week on Up First, the Trump administration and Venezuela.
Can the U.S.
run a foreign government, as the president says?
They simply may not adopt the policies that Trump would like to see.
It's a complex, fast-moving story.
As always,
we're working overnight and every night so you can start each morning knowing what matters.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.
President Trump is urging the major oil companies to make large investments in Venezuela following the ouster of the country's president,
Nicolas Maduro, by the U.S.
military.
NPR's Camila Domenoschi says it would cost billions of dollars to boost oil production in Venezuela.
Getting Venezuela's oil out of the ground is not simple.
Kevin Book is with Clearview Energy Partners.
It's not just a geologic problem or an engineering problem, but a math problem.
Would companies make back the money they put in?
Is the country stable enough to invest?
And thanks to an oversupply of oil, global crude prices are comparatively low right now,
so these investments might not be profitable at all without subsidies.