Delcy Rodriguez doesn’t need democracy. She needs the generals paid

$7 billion is a signed contract. $209 billion is a number she made up with her own name on it.

On Sept. 2, Chevron announced a signed a $7 billion expansion of its Venezuelan operations, doubling production over the next five years. That is the concrete number. The $209 billion figure that acting President Delcy Rodriguez has floated publicly describes something looser, her own accounting of what the broader arrangement with Washington could eventually be worth to Venezuela. What […]

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