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GiqueCee

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6. When Venezuela...

Reply to chowmama (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 10:27 AM

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... nationalized their oil reserves, it was, as I understand it, in response to the predatory actions of American oil companies' not honoring the trade agreements that allowed them to prospect for, and extract, crude oil in areas on which they held leases.
An honest oil company executive is like a unicorn. It doesn't exist.

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