Trump, OFAC and Chevron’s “secret” license to operate in Venezuela

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 28.May.2025, Words: 274) — The administration of US president Donald Trump has authorized Chevron Corporation to continue limited activities in the OPEC country, but with a key change: this time the license is secret. 

“It is an important turn with respect to the public licenses issued even during Trump’s first term,” says Francisco Rodríguez, a Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver‘s Josef Korbel School of International Studies.