In the shifting terrain between diplomacy and commerce, the Trump administration has chosen an unusual instrument for its Venezuela ambitions: a private businessman named Alejandro Betancourt, who has positioned himself as the human bridge between Washington's energy interests and Venezuela's fractured oil sector. Rather than pursuing influence through sanctions or state-to-state negotiation, the administration is backing a direct commercial venture, signaling a broader strategic turn toward private intermediaries as the agents of American foreign policy. Betancourt accepted the risks his advi