This propaganda by Reuters (which was once funded by the UK govt's anti-communist infowarfare arm) does not mention why Venezuela needs to import gas: because criminal US sanctions prevent it from importing diluent & light crude it needs to process its oil https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-gasoline-iran-idUSKBN22V32A

Mainstream media reporting on Venezuela is nonstop propaganda and disinformation. It only exists to manufacture consent for regime change

Ironically oil industry websites are more honest because they're writing for investors who want to know actual facts https://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/midstream-downstream/refining-marketing/2019/sanctions-squeeze-venezuelas-heavy-crude-output

Yes Venezuela has a lot of oil, but it's some of the thickest crude on the planet and can’t be used or exported without first being diluted.

It used to import naphtha and light crude to dilute its oil, but the criminal, murderous US blockade prevents that http://www.worldoil.com/news/2019/1/29/diluting-venezuela-s-heavy-crude-just-got-harder

Any "news" report on Venezuela importing gas that doesn't mention this fundamental fact is fake news and propaganda. It's not meant to inform people but rather disinform them, to manufacture consent for the nonstop murderous US imperialist war on Venezuela https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1263101128692006918?s=19