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President Donald Trump is a very busy man. He doesn't have much time to be entertaining anything or anyone for long. The recent announcement of his administration getting into some kind of a partnership with Alejandro Betancourt does bring one relevant question: who made the intro and got the fee? The Washington Post has advanced the hypothetical option of Mauricio Claver-Carone, as the behind-scenes architect of the deal.

Jeffrey Epstein too was controversial, remember? For many years, the sweet deal that Epstein cut with Alex Acosta was referred to as controversial. Acosta would become Trump's labor secretary. But there was no controversy, was there? For well over a decade, Epstein laughed at law enforcement while cultivating and exploiting relations at the highest levels in the U.S. and elsewhere. Epstein's friends were all in awe of his worldliness and sophistication, of his suave demeanor, of his erudition.

UPDATED [SEE BELOW] - Axios, largely perceived as the quasi-official propaganda organ of Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, gave some clues this morning about reasons behind the U.S. government's decision to pick Alejandro Betancourt as partner. Most of the stuff Infodio readers have known for years have been confirmed by Axios, but some claims merit further scrutiny.

The White House put out a Fact Sheet about the "biggest oil deal in world history" that Donald Trump did with Alejandro Betancourt. We would encourage readers to save a copy of the original version published for future reference. Said Fact Sheet raises a number of questions:

This is a guest post from Alek Boyd - It is the end of 2025. Imagine being a billionaire controlling your own banks, allegedly a legitimate businessman with operations spanning the globe, and getting arrested twice in London, on competing international arrest warrants issued by Spain and Switzerland. You read it correctly: Switzerland. Imagine having to surrender passports and suffer the indignity of having to fight an extradition request from Switzerland, linked to a multi billion dollar money laundering case.

With customary fanfare Donald Trump announced an oil deal that is meant to give control to the U.S. government of vast reserves of Venezuelan crude. If the Venezuelan and Iranian fiascos wouldn't be so alarmingly clear, some level of credence could be given. But as with every Trump-related claim, this site is calling absolute BS on the whole thing. Firstly, Venezuela does not have the oil reserves that the Donald think it has. The much touted about figure is a complete fabrication of Hugo Chavez that has never been independently verified.

This site has, without a doubt, the largest collection of research about Alejandro Betancourt's criminal activities. What started in 2011, 2012 has arguably been one of the best documented cases of rampant corruption ever published in any language.

Nervis Villalobos, and by extension his wife Milagros Coromoto Torres Moran, are directly involved in very many corruption schemes in Venezuela. As a result, international criminal probes have identified and included Villalobos and Torres Moran in proceedings.