Trump Says U.S. Will 'Run' Venezuela

U.S. oil companies are going to take over Venezuela’s oil fields and industry, President Donald Trump said Saturday, declaring that U.S. oil interests will revive oil production in a country with one of the world’s largest reserves.

Trump cited oil as one of the motivations for the U.S. intervention that led to the capture Saturday of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

“As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust, for a long period of time,” Trump said. “They were pumping almost nothing, by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place.”

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