{"id":17075,"date":"2026-01-09T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17075"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:49:31","slug":"venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/09\/venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red;\"><strong>Venezuela:<\/strong><\/span> Trump&#8217;s Mess Deepens as Oil Scam Begins to Unravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NYTimes<\/em>: It turns out that Big Oil is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/09\/business\/energy-environment\/venezuela-oil-trump.html\">wary of investing in Venezuela<\/a>&#8221; as their string pullers head to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government has &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/09\/nx-s1-5672325\/venezuela-releases-imprisoned-opposition-figures-trump-says-us-requested\">released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists<\/a>&#8220;, which Trump is saying the US requested.<\/p>\n<p>NBC reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/venezuela\/us-seizes-tanker-olina-caribbean-venezuela-russia-oil-rcna253170\">the US has seized another Venezuelan tanker<\/a> in its campaign to <strike>steal<\/strike> \u2013 excuse me, &#8220;control flow of Venezuelan oil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And Senator reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/09\/2026\/democrats-request-public-hearings-on-us-action-in-venezuela\">Democrats have requested public hearings on US actions in Venezuela<\/a>. Maybe they should consider high-profile issuance os subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going according to plan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17099,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075\/revisions\/17099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}