The New Oil Play

America First on Venezuela keeps shifting: Chevron’s wind-down deadline is now May 27, while the U.S. is set to enforce secondary sanctions on any other country buying oil & gas from Maduro. Meanwhile, repatriation flights between the U.S. and Venezuela have resumed

🫓 Trump announces “secondary tariffs” on other countries that buy Vzlan oil or gas—meaning those countries face a 25% tariff on their trade with the U.S. starting April 2.

Still figuring out what this means, but it sounds a lot like Trump went from “we won’t buy oil from…
— Caracas Chronicles (@CaracasChron) March 24, 2025

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The Trump administration also revoked the humanitarian parole program for 530,000 Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians who either have to self-deport or face deportation by April 30.

Who buys Venezuelan oil and how could they be impacted by the new US tariffs? pic.twitter.com/9dhjc00sJ3
— Marianna Párraga (@mariannaparraga) March 24, 2025

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