“The giant energy companies most capable of rebuilding Venezuela’s shattered oil fields are also the most skeptical about heeding President Donald Trump’s call to pour money into the country,” Politico reports.
“That still leaves plenty of smaller oil, mining, finance and other businesses clamoring for the chance to jump in — and jamming the White House phone lines for a chance to do so, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday.”


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