Venezuela's Post-Maduro Reality: US Oil Demands & A Caving VP

What else is the among the most important things that our audience needs to be paying attention to? I think we need to be paying attention to what happens in Venezuela in the aftermath of the snatching of President Maduro. Uh, there wasn't even really a change in government. Uh, the vice president, uh, Dulce Rodriguez has taken over. She has not shown international independent leadership. Um, she has essentially caved to US demands. And the US demands were that, um, that the Venezuelans allow American oil companies to go and and drill for oil, uh, that the Venezuelans not allow the Chinese and the Indians to refine the oil. The oil historically was always refined in Texas. So now it's going to be refined again in Texas. It hasn't been in, I don't know, eight or 10 years since we imposed sanctions. The thing is that Venezuela's oil is a very, very heavy. It, um, it's the dirtiest oil on Earth. It has the highest sulfur content, which means that it needs to be injected during the refining process, injected with chemicals to try to take some of that sulfur out. As a result, it's no good for gasoline. ...