which I expect he is talking about and which was co-owned/managed by Venezuela via PDV Holdings (run by Hugo Chavez's cousin) but is a U.S. company.
I remember starting 20-some years ago when Chavez was sending free heating oil via CITGO to some of the poorest areas of the U.S. (initially and notably in the news was Maine for some of the Native American tribes there).
Help from Hugo Chavez: Free Heating Oil for Needy U.S. Families (Pew Research Center April 14, 2008)
Venezuela lost whatever control they had left in CITGO in 2024.
ETA - there were a bunch of threads about this during the DU2 days (and the current DU DuckDuckGo search doesn't seem to be pulling those up nor will Advanced Search do anything before DU3, which was implemented in 2011), but here is an example from 10 years ago - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1251596323
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