The dispute reflects a debate over whether the Trump administration has a coherent strategy for governing Venezuela after the removal of Maduro and whether U.S. policy is being driven primarily by military and economic leverage without a defined political end state. "As you’ve seen today, we are in the midst right now and, in fact, about to execute on a deal to take all the oil they have that’s stuck in Venezuela. "That money will then be handled in such a way that we will control how it is disbursed in a way that benefits the Venezuelan people, not corruption, not the regime."
Published at: 2026-01-07 21:46:00
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