The US experiment in Venezuela is basically resurrecting an oligarch it used to shun – WaPo reports that US officials lobbied to help Alejandro Betancourt, a fixer going back to the Chavez era, with a Swiss arrest warrant, as he helps the US with oil deals. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0…
— Joseph Cotterill (@jsphctrl.ft.com) 2026-08-27T11:50:19.283Z
