In a move that echoes the long, complicated history of foreign capital meeting sovereign resource nationalism, Chevron has committed more than $7 billion to expand oil production in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt — the world's most reserve-rich but infrastructure-starved oil region. Brokered by the Trump administration with an unusual Pentagon profit stake, the deal promises energy security and lower gas prices, yet arrives without constitutional sanction, without the confidence of other major oil companies, and against a backdrop of decades of nationalization and asset seizure. The distance between