Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said in an interview
this week that Washington’s newly selected oil partner in Venezuela, Alejandro
Betancourt, is implicated in "extremely serious corruption." She said if she
returned to power she would not regard Betancourt as a viable commercial
partner. Betancourt recently struck a lucrative deal with the Trump
administration that gave him control of roughly one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil
reserves.