{"id":93106,"date":"2026-01-08T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:35:14","slug":"why-trump-is-fixated-on-venezuelan-oil-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93106\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767832514_955_oil-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Venezuela has roughly 17 percent of the world\u2019s known oil reserves, but it produces only about 1 percent of the crude oil the world is using. Our energy reporter Rebecca F. Elliott explains.<\/p>\n<p>By Rebecca F. Elliott, Melanie Bencosme, Nikolay Nikolov, Sutton Raphael, James Surdam and Lazaro Gamio<\/p>\n<p>January 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Why Trump Is Fixated on Venezuelan Oil Venezuela has roughly 17 percent of the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[43855,43856,43857,9,24,15862,63,43854,134,136,135,7318],"class_list":{"0":"post-93106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-chevron","9":"tag-exxon-mobil","10":"tag-internal-open-access-from-nl","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nicolas-maduro","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-oil-and-gasoline","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-staten-island-headlines","18":"tag-staten-island-news","19":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}