Venezuela holds more proven oil than any country on earth, roughly 303 billion barrels, and until nine months ago American money couldn't touch a drop of it. That ended when the United States military pulled Nicolás Maduro out of power, and on Friday Washington announced a deal handing it control of more than 65 billion of those barrels. President Trump wants that crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which a year of wartime releases has left at its lowest level since 198

Anyone who has spent time in the OTC market knows the roll-up pitch, and knows how few of them ever amount to more than a press release and a plan. Affluence Corporation (OTCID: $AFFU) is turning that narrative on its head, assembling a global Industrial IoT and smart-infrastructure group. Its president, Oscar Brito, co-founded iQSTEL (NASDAQ: $IQST) in 2018, back when it was doing $13.8 million a year, and more than a dozen acquisitions later that company trades on the Nasda