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  • ‘What we call corruption’: Harvard economist and former Venezuelan minister says Trump’s oil profit motives have no place in Venezuela’s future

    01/10/2026 12:38:43 PM PST · by Red6 · 18 replies
    Fortune ^ | Jan 09 2025 | Sasha Rogelberg
    President Donald Trump has assured the people of Venezuela that his undertaking to restore the country’s oil infrastructure will be mutually beneficial to both them and the U.S. Ricardo Hausmann, professor of the practice of international political economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, isn’t convinced. “There’s a reason why there’s no profit motive in government,” Hausmann told Fortune, referring to the U.S. controlling the Venezuelan oil market. “Profit motive in government is what we call corruption.” Trump has unveiled lofty plans to revive Venezuela’s troubled oil industry, just days after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro over the weekend....