{"id":24091,"date":"2024-12-01T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/?p=24091"},"modified":"2024-12-01T04:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T08:04:23","slug":"wheeler-dealer-oil-businessmen-push-trump-for-aggressive-oil-deal-with-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/wheeler-dealer-oil-businessmen-push-trump-for-aggressive-oil-deal-with-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler-Dealer Oil Businessmen Push Trump for Aggressive Oil Deal with Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Harry Sargeant III, a Gulf Stream resident, is among a trio of Florida businessmen who touted connections to Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine\u2019s massive state gas company, Naftogaz. In 2023, Intelligence Online reported that Sargeant, an oil tycoon from Florida, was joining the race to acquire the largest refinery in the Balkans, Lukoil. Additionally, #BirdBG reported that Sargeant was implicated in political and corruption scandals related to Russian interests.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Charles Kennedy, Oilprice.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON
EnergiesNet.com 11 30 2024 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. businessmen are quietly lobbying President-elect Donald Trump to drop the \u2018maximum pressure campaign\u2019 on Venezuela in his second term in office and strike a deal with Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A deal with Maduro would meet, the lobbyists say, two key Trump campaign priorities\u2014reducing illegal migration and reducing energy prices for U.S. consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of seeking a regime change in Venezuela by ratcheting up sanctions, which impoverished even more people who flee Venezuela and many end up in the United States, the new U.S. Administration should seek negotiations with Maduro that would allow Venezuelan heavy oil flows to the United States, the lobbyists say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was President Trump, in his first term in office, who slapped strict sanctions on Venezuela, effectively banning imports of its crude into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden Administration has sought some sanctions relief and allowed Venezuelan exports for six months between October 2023 and April 2024. Some general licenses have also been issued authorizing companies to operate in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now some businessmen, such as Harry Sargeant III, a billionaire GOP donor, are calling for a deal with Venezuela, according to the Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is indisputable that the renewed flow of high-quality, low cost Venezuelan asphalt to the U.S. has been a benefit to the American taxpayer,\u201d Harry Sargeant IV, the son of Harry Sargeant III and the president of Sargeant\u2019s company that has recently imported 43,000 barrels of liquid asphalt from Venezuela, told the WSJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has been a blow to our strategic competitors because under sanctions these barrels were turned into heavily discounted fuel oil that simply subsidized the Chinese economy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, President-elect Trump\u2019s early picks for his team definitely do not favor an easing on Venezuela\u2014on the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s pick for secretary of state, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, has been one of the harshest critics of Biden\u2019s sanctions relief. Rubio, if confirmed as secretary of state, is likely to toughen<\/a> the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s oil, analysts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oilprice.com 11 28 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Charles Kennedy, Oilprice.com LONDON EnergiesNet.com 11 30 2024 U.S. businessmen are quietly lobbying President-elect Donald Trump to drop the \u2018maximum pressure campaign\u2019 on Venezuela in his second term in office and strike a deal with Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reports. A deal with Maduro would meet, the lobbyists say, two key Trump campaign priorities\u2014reducing …<\/p>\n

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