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To: Les H who wrote (49962)12/30/2025 8:30:09 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 51117
 
Halliburton Files ISDS Suit Against Venezuela for Damages Resulting from… US Sanctions on Venezuela
Posted on December 30, 2025 by Nick Corbishley

Talk about making the victim pay…

On December 11, as the Trump administration was escalating its military campaign against Venezuela by trying to impose a total siege on the country’s oil and gas sector, the US oilfield services company Halliburton quietly filed a suit against Venezuela at the World Bank’s international arbitration court, ICSID.

Halliburton Files ISDS Suit Against Venezuela for Damages Resulting from... US Sanctions on Venezuela | naked capitalism

This may be the second lawsuit. Another US oil company filed lawsuit for damages resulting from unilateral sanctions levied by the US. Venezuela would technically be an injured party in the sanctions, and the damages were inflicted by the US government.