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U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is meet­ing with oil ex­ec­u­tives at the White House on Fri­day in hopes of se­cur­ing $100 bil­lion in in­vest­ments to re­vive Venezuela’s abil­i­ty to ful­ly tap in­to its ex­pan­sive re­serves of pe­tro­le­um — a plan that rides on their com­fort in mak­ing com­mit­ments in a coun­try plagued by in­sta­bil­i­ty, in­fla­tion and un­cer­tain­ty.

Since the U.S. mil­i­tary raid to cap­ture for­mer Venezue­lan leader Nicolás Maduro on Sat­ur­day, Trump has quick­ly piv­ot­ed to por­tray­ing the move as a new­found eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ty for the U.S., seiz­ing three tankers car­ry­ing Venezue­lan oil, say­ing the U.S. is tak­ing over the sales of 30 mil­lion to 50 mil­lion bar­rels of pre­vi­ous­ly sanc­tioned Venezue­lan oil and will be con­trol­ling sales world­wide in­def­i­nite­ly.

It’s al­so part of a broad­er push by Trump to keep gaso­line prices low. At a time when many Amer­i­cans are con­cerned about af­ford­abil­i­ty, the in­cur­sion in Venezuela melds Trump’s as­sertive use of pres­i­den­tial pow­ers with an op­ti­cal spec­ta­cle meant to con­vince Amer­i­cans that he can bring down en­er­gy prices.