It is an equity stake in a private company owned by a Venezuelan.

I don't have strong opinions on all this, but your colonialization hyperbole and claiming that we're stealing the oil is flat out wrong. A fallacious argument is never persuasive, you should know this.

Based on all the accurate reporting, this will be good for Venezuelan's which should be the goal. It seems like you would prefer that Maduro's reign of terror was still going on.