Trump Says Oversight of Venezuela Could Last Years

President Trump said that he expected the United States would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country — all former loyalists to the now-imprisoned Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary,” the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “We will rebuild it in a very profitable way. We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”

Wall Street Journal: Trump team works up sweeping plan to control Venezuelan oil for years to come.