President Trump Touts “America’s Energy Dominance.” It’s more complicated than that.

By Char Daston
Neighbors wait to receive bags with subsidized food distributed under a government program named “CLAP,” in the Catia district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. An independent U.N. human rights monitor says economic sanctions are compounding a “grave crisis” in Venezuela.
Neighbors wait to receive bags with subsidized food distributed under a government program named "CLAP," in the Catia district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. An independent U.N. human rights monitor says economic sanctions are compounding a "grave crisis" in Venezuela. Rodrigo Abd / AP Photo
Neighbors wait to receive bags with subsidized food distributed under a government program named “CLAP,” in the Catia district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. An independent U.N. human rights monitor says economic sanctions are compounding a “grave crisis” in Venezuela.
Neighbors wait to receive bags with subsidized food distributed under a government program named "CLAP," in the Catia district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. An independent U.N. human rights monitor says economic sanctions are compounding a "grave crisis" in Venezuela. Rodrigo Abd / AP Photo

President Trump Touts “America’s Energy Dominance.” It’s more complicated than that.

By Char Daston
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The Trump administration announced sanctions on Venezuelan oil imports, putting pressure on Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to resign. Energy analyst Antonia Juhasz says the sanctions are part of a strategy by the Trump administration to gain more control of the world’s oil, a strategy the administration calls “American Energy Dominance.” Juhasz joins Worldview to discuss the Trump administration’s oil policy in light of the sanctions on Venezuela.