{"id":872,"date":"2026-05-22T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:03:58","slug":"trump-administration-expands-energy-ties-in-venezuela-amid-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration expands energy ties in Venezuela amid economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>CARACAS, Venezuela.  \u2014 Venezuelans are seeing signs of renewed U.S. involvement in their country as the Trump administration pursues energy deals tied to the nation\u2019s vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=870\">House rejects Smithsonian women\u2019s museum bill after GOP bans \u2018biological men\u2019 from exhibits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelations are better,\u201d Caracas business owner Raul Rosales said in Spanish. \u201cThey want fuel, they have to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline in Venezuela has long been heavily subsidized, costing the equivalent of less than $2 per gallon, but the fuel industry is now drawing renewed attention from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said this week, \u201cWe have a great joint venture with Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro no longer at the center of negotiations, attention has shifted toward Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodriguez, as the country struggles with a worsening economy and growing public frustration.<\/p>\n<p>At the Marriott hotel in an upscale section of Caracas, U.S. oil investors and government officials have recently been staying there while negotiating deals. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has met with Rodriguez, while attorneys and consultants have traveled to survey oil fields.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=868\">Key federal agency approves the design plan for Trump\u2019s Washington arch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top floor of the hotel is temporarily serving as a U.S. Embassy office while the official embassy compound nearby undergoes renovations after sitting empty for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople here (are) feeling that the revolution is a huge lie because our quality of life is under the ground,\u201d political communications consultant Pablo Quintero said.<\/p>\n<p>Quintero said increased U.S. involvement has weakened the Venezuelan government\u2019s long-standing political messaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government lose, the propaganda lose, the message lose the control of narrative of public opinion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many Venezuelans, he said, are less focused on politics than on daily survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople here don\u2019t care about Donald Trump, don\u2019t care about Delcy Rodriguez, people are on survival mode,\u201d Quintero said. \u201cSurvival mode all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=866\">Backlash to Trump\u2019s $1.8B settlement fund delays GOP immigration bill<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Latest headlines from:<\/div>\n<div>\nMiami-Dade<br \/>\nBroward<br \/>\nFlorida Keys<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary><span>Cities<\/span><span>\u25be<\/span><\/summary>\n<div>\n<div>\nMiami<br \/>\nFort Lauderdale<br \/>\nCoral Springs<br \/>\nDavie<br \/>\nDeerfield Beach<br \/>\nDoral<br \/>\nHialeah<br \/>\nHollywood<br \/>\nHomestead<br \/>\nLauderhill<br \/>\nMiami Beach<br \/>\nMiami Gardens<br \/>\nMiramar<br \/>\nPembroke Pines<br \/>\nPlantation<br \/>\nPompano Beach<br \/>\nSunrise<br \/>\nTamarac\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelans are seeing signs of renewed U.S. involvement in their country as the Trump administration pursues energy deals tied to the nation\u2019s vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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