Trump Set to End Venezuela Oil Deal, Citing Election Record and Slow Deportation Assistance

Trump announced he won’t renew a November 2022 deal in which the Biden administration had allowed Chevron to work with Venezuela’s oil industry.
Trump Set to End Venezuela Oil Deal, Citing Election Record and Slow Deportation Assistance
An oil platform built by Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA, in Orinoco, Venezuela, in a file photo. RAMON SAHMKOW/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump is preparing to cancel a 2022 sanctions relief agreement with Venezuela, citing the country’s election conditions and insufficient efforts to repatriate its citizens from the United States.

On Nov. 26, 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) issued a license authorizing the U.S. multinational oil and gas company Chevron Corp. to pursue business ventures in Venezuela.