United States negotiates with Venezuela participation in oil fields

The United States is in negotiations with Venezuela's interim government to obtain a significant stake in several of the country's oil fields, in an operation aimed at strengthening Washington's control over Venezuelan energy resources, according to information from Axios and Bloomberg, which cite their own sources.

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