Tennis legend Martina Navratilova supports sanctioning US companies that take Venezuelan oil

Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova took to social media on Saturday to share her thoughts on the U.S.intervention in Venezuela, supporting the idea of criminal sanctions on American companies that try to take oil from the country. Navratilova praised a post on X suggesting the sanctions, writing “love it” in response to journalist Lauren Windsor’s post that read, “Any American oil company that expropriates oil from Venezuela should be sanctioned by the International Criminal Court.”Navratilova later shared further thoughts about the operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with President Donald Trump saying that the U.S.

will “run” Venezuela until a transition of power is complete. “Holding a country hostage while pillaging its natural resources.Next stop- either Greenland or Nigeria,” Navratilova wrote in response to a thread that included a report about Wall Street firm officials in the finance, energy and defense sectors visiting Venezuela after the recent strikes. Roughly twice the size of California, Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

At an estimated 300 billion barrels, about 20% of the global total and nearly four times U.S.reserves, that endowment dwarfs that of any other nation.Venezuela’s stockpile, now larger than those of energy titans like Saudi Arabia, has become a central flashpoint in the geopolitical struggle surrounding the country’s future.

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Venezuela’s reserves are dominated by heavy and extra-heavy crude that requires specialized equipment, constant maintenance and advanced refining capacity, much of which has deteriorated after years of underinvestment and skilled labor losses.During his address on Saturday, Tr...