48 billion tons. This gigantic amount of oil is stored in the ground and off the coast Venezuelathey are the largest deposits in the world. Enough to cover Germany’s current entire needs, for example for half a millennium to cover. The oil fields have also been explored and mapped; there is little that is unknown here.
No wonder that these quantities arouse desire. Especially with a US president, whose unofficial government motto “Drill, baby, drill” is. Already in previous military actions United States There was a suspicion that the government was primarily interested in oil. Such was the case with the invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush in 2003. But normally the American government does not talk about it as openly as Donald Trump did in his statement about the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday: “We will let our very large US oil companies go in, they will invest billions of dollars, repair the infrastructure and start making money,” said Trump at a press conference.
