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Over the past couple of weeks, oil, specifically Venezuelan oil, has been all over the headlines.

It started late on January 2nd when President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military forces to enter Venezuela

and capture the country's president, Nicholas Maduro, which they did early the next morning.

Last week, the country's interior

ministered so the action killed a hundred people. In the intervening weeks, President Trump

has made clear that at least part of his motivation for the operation was the nation's oil fields,

which are home to an estimated 303 billion barrels of oil reserves, more oil than Saudi Arabia or any other country in the world.

To dig into the situation, we spoke with Amy Westervelt, a climate reporter and executive editor of the Multimedia Climate Reporting Project drilled.

We talked to Amy about why Venezuela has so much oil, the history of the country's oil industry,

and how this obsession with oil

is impacting climate change. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. You perhaps know

more about oil in South America than any other climate reporter I've met. What got you interested

in it? Actually, Guyana is what got me interested in it. So I got this press release from Exxon in, I want to say, 2020, that said that Guyana was going to be their most productive basin within the next five to ten years, that it would outpace even the Permian basin in Texas. And I thought, how did they go that big that fast?

And then shortly after that, I got some press releases from an attorney that had filed various

cases in Guyana trying to stop the offshore project and arguing that part of the reason

that they had moved so fast was that they had

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