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Long-time Cuban partner that supplied crude oil in exchange for Cuban professionals, especially healthcare workers, until the arrangement ended in January.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
The memorandum signed at Miraflores Palace on September 19 follows deals BP, Eni, Repsol and Chevron struck with the new government this year. Venezuela still pumps under a million barrels a day against about three million in the late 1990s.
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Leaving OPEC would not lift a production target Venezuela is currently exempt from, so the interim government would be trading away a vote for nothing measurable, at the moment the White House says it controls the reserves.
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Two dollars under Oman/Dubai is a strange price for a corridor still running below normal. The September 6 OPEC+ meeting will show whether Riyadh was accommodating weak shipping or buying Asian share ahead of a 2027 capacity review.
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The reserves would more than double on paper, but Venezuela is lifting less than half what it did a decade ago. The private capital asked to fix that is being promised a policy whose stated aim is cheaper crude.
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Vox reports that blackouts, fuel shortages and broken cold chains have pushed Cuba's universal health system into a humanitarian crisis. Physician supply was never the binding constraint.
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