Martina Navratilova expresses support for criminal sanctions to US companies that take oil from Venezuela

Women's tennis fable Martina Navratilova took to societal media connected Saturday to stock her thoughts connected the U.S. involution successful Venezuela, supporting the thought of transgression sanctions connected American companies that effort to instrumentality lipid from the country. 

Navratilova praised a station connected X suggesting the sanctions, penning "love it" successful effect to writer Lauren Windsor's station that read, "Any American lipid institution that expropriates lipid from Venezuela should beryllium sanctioned by the International Criminal Court."

Navratilova aboriginal shared further thoughts astir the cognition that resulted successful the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with President Donald Trump saying that the U.S. volition "run" Venezuela until a modulation of powerfulness is complete. 

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"Holding a state hostage portion pillaging its earthy resources. Next stop- either Greenland oregon Nigeria," Navratilova wrote successful effect to a thread that included a study astir Wall Street steadfast officials successful the finance, vigor and defence sectors visiting Venezuela aft the caller strikes. 

Roughly doubly the size of California, Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven lipid reserves. At an estimated 300 cardinal barrels, astir 20% of the planetary full and astir 4 times U.S. reserves, that endowment dwarfs that of immoderate different nation.

Venezuela’s stockpile, present larger than those of vigor titans similar Saudi Arabia, has go a cardinal flashpoint successful the geopolitical conflict surrounding the country’s future.

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Venezuela’s reserves are dominated by dense and extra-heavy crude that requires specialized equipment, changeless attraction and precocious refining capacity, overmuch of which has deteriorated aft years of underinvestment and skilled labour losses.

During his code connected Saturday, Trump accused Venezuela’s socialist authorities of seizing American vigor assets and dismantling an manufacture built with U.S. investment.

"Venezuela unilaterally seized and sold American oil, American assets and American platforms, costing america billions and billions of dollars," Trump said. "They took each of our property."

"We built Venezuela’s lipid manufacture with American talent, thrust and skill, and the socialist authorities stole it from us," helium added. 

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Trump added that U.S. vigor companies would play a cardinal relation successful rebuilding the Latin American country’s lipid sector.

"We are going to person our precise ample United States lipid companies spell in, walk billions of dollars, hole the severely breached lipid infrastructure and commencement making wealth for the country," helium said.

Fox News Digital's Amanda Macias contributed to this report.

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