{"id":657567,"date":"2026-01-09T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657567"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:12:13","slug":"why-taking-venezuelas-oil-could-actually-lift-its-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-taking-venezuelas-oil-could-actually-lift-its-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why taking Venezuela\u2019s oil could actually lift its fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s surprise announcement that the U.S. would take millions of barrels of Venezuelan crude could be an economic boon for the battered South American nation\u2014if Washington and Caracas can maintain their nascent detente, U.S. officials and economists said.<\/p>\n<p>That might be a big if, but economists said restoring a trade link with the U.S. would generate badly needed cash for a country dependent on importing food and basic goods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s surprise announcement that the U.S. would take millions of barrels of Venezuelan crude could be an economic boon for the battered South American nation\u2014if Washington and Caracas can maintain their nascent detente, U.S. officials and economists said. That might be a big if, but economists said restoring a trade link with the U.S. would generate badly needed cash for a country dependent on importing food and basic goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}