Info Desk · recordings 8 September 2026

Venezuela oil announcement versus the OFAC license list

Three public recordings: the OFAC Venezuela sanctions page, the White House fact sheet of 31 August 2026, and quotes from the AP report that followed. The desk compares what each document actually says. It does not scrape live, and it does not publish a note until a person approves.

The three recordings

What each document says

Stated Attributed Denied / not named Absent

OFAC general licenses on the recording

CodeWhat the page authorisesIssued

Looking up a code that is not on this page (for example 99Z) returns nothing. The desk cannot invent a license.

Findings

Draft note


        
Eval harness (not the desk)

CI also runs six checks against SQLite: ranking conflict, royalties on one document, OFAC is not the deal, a jailbreak line appended to the OFAC recording, a 429 then retry, and a human reject. harness.json