Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources
TL;DR
- Opposition leader María Corina Machado questions the legitimacy of an oil deal between Donald Trump and Venezuela's interim government.
- Machado states that Venezuela's natural resources do not belong to an "illegitimate regime" but to the Venezuelan people.
- The agreement, described as the "biggest oil deal in world history," involves over 65 billion barrels of oil.
- Trump's deal was made with interim president Delcy Rodríguez, not with Machado, who many observers expected to be backed.
- Critics have condemned the deal as a "predatory and colonial-style land grab."