{"id":31119,"date":"2026-08-30T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=31119"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:21:08","slug":"dirty-deal-u-s-to-take-35-stake-in-venezuelan-mogul-betancourts-oil-venture-wsj-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/30\/dirty-deal-u-s-to-take-35-stake-in-venezuelan-mogul-betancourts-oil-venture-wsj-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">DIRTY DEAL:<\/span> U.S. To Take 35% Stake In Venezuelan Mogul Betancourt&#8217;s Oil Venture, WSJ Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this looks like open corruption\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/venezuela-oil-united-states_n_6a93a4f3e4b0b47f3d0c6832\">HuffPo:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. government plans to take a 35% passive stake in Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt\u2019s North American Blue Energy Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people involved in negotiating the deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full WSJ article details how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/inside-trumps-plan-to-give-the-pentagon-a-stake-in-venezuelas-oil-riches-f054cdc2\">the Trump Regime plans to siphon funds to the Pentagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2026\/08\/fox-flacks-gush-over-trumps-venezuelan-oil\">&#8220;The propagandists on Fox were all-in with Trump&#8217;s announcement that the US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of the country&#8217;s oil reserves.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this looks like open corruption\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119","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=31119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}