{
  "id": 5365978,
  "title": "Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobel-laureate-machado-illegitimate-venezuela-regime-has-no-right-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T16:17:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/venezuelan-opposition-leader-questions-us-oil-deal-with-illegitimate-regime"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government, declaring that the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”. In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Südamerika: Oppositionsführerin Machado kann laut Rubio nach Venezuela zurück",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/sudamerika-oppositionsfuhrerin-machado-kann-laut-rubio-nach-venezuela",
        "published": "2026-09-03T08:51:43.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}