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Eric Boehm

Trump's Venezuela Oil Deal Sells Out Democracy and Free Markets

Just days after the U.S. military captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in early January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined the Trump administration's plans for the future of the South American country.

Rubio described a three-stage process. First would be "stabilization of the country," which would include President Donald Trump's biggest priority: seizing oil reserves. "We are going to take between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil," Rubio said in January.

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