# Washington Locks Up Hemispheric Oil

As Gulf supply routes stay unreliable, the United States keeps using state power and security leverage to secure long-term claims on Western Hemisphere oil and minerals, so more state-brokered resource arrangements with Latin American governments follow.

- Conviction: 40 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-08-29T06:37:00.171Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/trends/hemispheric-oil-consolidation
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: United States, Latin America

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Trump Says the United States Has Taken Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil (2026-08-29): Trump said the United States has taken majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves, with interim president Delcy Rodriguez putting the arrangement at 17 fields and about $209 billion into the state treasury. This is the largest single instance of the state-brokered resource capture the thesis tracks, moving it from leverage-seeking to executed ownership of a national reserve base.