President Trump shared on Saturday that the removal of Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, from power was designed to open the door to the nation's vast oil reserves.
This move has sparked shock and outrage across the board for reshaping the global energy market.
{img}"We are going to have our huge US oil firms, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, and begin making money for the nation"- he shared during his recent public address.
'They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been,' the president added.
{img}Trump's message came just a few hours after the stunning raid in the country that led to American forces and law enforcement capturing the president and his wife as explosions rocked the capital.
According to media reports, the country has the largest oil reserves in the world, and that's equivalent to nearly 300 billion barrels, as per a top research firm.