U.S. Captures Maduro, Targets Venezuela Oil

The deal continues today under far more challenging circumstances and a lack of clarity

over what happens next. Over the years, Venezuela has worked to pay down its

debt to Beijing and is estimated to owe $10 billion, according to AidData, a research institute

at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. China,

for its part, has stopped making new loans and, in many ways, is far less reliant

on both Venezuela and oil more generally. The United States has been imposing increasingly restrictive

sanctions on Venezuela for years. Then on Saturday, U.S. forces captured

the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. President Trump claimed shortly thereafter that