Washington , 08 January (H.S.): President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, via Truth Social that Venezuela commits to procuring exclusively American-made products with revenues from a nascent oil accord, encompassing agricultural commodities, pharmaceuticals, medical apparatus, and infrastructure equipment to rehabilitate the nation's decrepit power grid and energy installations.

This directive, relayed hours after PDVSA affirmed progressing U.S. negotiations, underscores Washington's ironclad stewardship over 30-50 million barrels of sanctioned crude—valued at approximately $2-2.8 billion at Brent benchmarks—earmarked for market-rate liquidation into U.S.-controlled escrow.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt affirmed the administration's maximum leverage over interim President Delcy Rodriguez's junta, installed post the January 3 Delta Force-CIA extraction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores to New York on narco-terrorism indictments.

Strategic Commodity Lock-In

Trump's proclamation delineates procurements spanning U.S. grains and proteins to sustain Caracas amid hyperinflation, alongside diagnostics, therapeutics, and grid-hardening transformers from firms like GE and Siemens USA, supplanting Maduro-era Chinese and Russian vendors.

Venezuela is committing to doing business with the United States of America as their principal partner—a wise choice, Trump exulted, framing the diktat as symbiotic boon post-regime change. Chevron, sole sanctioned exporter of Orinoco heavy grades, exemplifies the Chevron-model PDVSA invoked Wednesday, with forthcoming tenders poised to unlock 400,000 barrels daily flows paralyzed by Caribbean blockades.

White House Leverage Doctrine

Leavitt's briefing crystallized U.S. suzerainty: Their decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States, echoing Energy Secretary Chris Wright's Miami assurance of indefinite oversight on sales yielding $2.8 billion, funneled to reconstruction sans corruption vectors.

Rodriguez's compliance—sworn Monday—tempers PDVSA board scion Wills Rangel's global-price defiance, navigating fiscal resuscitation against sovereignty hemorrhage; Friday's White House summit with ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron executives, potentially joined by Marco Rubio, will calibrate investments hinging on post-Trump tenure assurances.

Hemispheric Reordering Cascades

This mercantilist template synergizes with $1.5 trillion Dream Military surges, 66 multilateral purges, Greenland Arctic thrusts, and institutional homebuyer curbs, prosecuting America First via tariff ballast amid Jaishankar's Indo-European stabilization pivot.

Global South oil aspirants eye BRICS+ countermeasures as Beijing's imports stagnate, while stabilized Venezuelan supply—potentially scaling from 1 million bpd—dampens Brent volatility, bolstering Trump's midterm affordability narrative entwined with hemispheric resource dominion.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar