Longtime climate advocate Sen. Ed Markey is demanding answers from President Donald Trump over the role that oil companies might have played in his decision to attack Venezuela and arrest its president.
In a Monday letter to Trump, Markey urged the White House to “cease all hostilities against Venezuela,” seek approval from Congress for futher military actions and inform Congress about how the administration plans to treat the country’s extensive oil resources.
“History offers a clear warning against the belief that the United States should engineer regime change to seize oil assets or protect fossil fuel corporation interests,” Markey wrote.
After military operations over the weekend that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump said that U.S.-based oil companies would “go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure and start making money for the country.”
