Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal

Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government, saying the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”. In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday, Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the agreement and trying not to rile the White House. Continue reading...