Crude appeal: why Trump wants Venezuela’s oil
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:11.4 | Anyone wishing for a calm start to the new year will have had their hopes dashed at the weekend |
| 0:17.5 | as US forces struck Venezuela and seized the president, Nicholas Maduro, |
| 0:23.0 | and his wife, in a pre-dawn raid. |
| 0:26.3 | President Trump just announced on social media that Venezuelan president, |
| 0:31.0 | Nicholas Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country. |
| 0:34.5 | I can't recall this ever happening, at least in modern history. |
| 0:39.9 | After the initial shock, many were left asking why. |
| 0:45.1 | And it wasn't long before President Trump held a press conference to provide his rationale for |
| 0:50.9 | the attack. |
| 0:52.4 | Maduro and Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York |
| 0:56.9 | for the campaign of deadly narco-terrorism against the United States and its citizens. |
| 1:03.8 | Including a very clear admission that was a surprise to hear said out loud. |
| 1:09.9 | We're going to have our very large United States oil companies the biggest anywhere in the world, |
| 1:17.9 | go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, |
| 1:25.7 | and start making money for the country. According to the United infrastructure, and start making money for the country. |
| 1:30.9 | According to the president, the U.S. is just claiming what's rightfully theirs. |
| 1:36.2 | We built Venezuela oil industry with American talent, drive and skill, |
| 1:41.4 | and the socialist regime stole it from us during those previous administrations, |
| 1:48.9 | and they stole it through force. This constituted one of the largest thefts of American |
| 1:54.0 | property in the history of our country. So, what's so special about Venezuela's oil? |
| 2:02.6 | Will US companies heed Trump's call to help get hold of it? |
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