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By Collin Binkley, Juan Pablo Arr\u00e1ez And Regina Garcia Cano WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Besides a social media post from President Donald Trump, the White House has said little about what he is calling \u201cTHE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY\u201d in Venezuela. Trump said the agreement announced Friday night would give the United States a stake in Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves, a step toward his goal of extracting energy from the country after American forces captured then-President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges. Venezuela\u2019s acting president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country\u2019s oil industry. In a televised address to the nation late Saturday, Rodr\u00edguez insisted Venezuela’s… <\/p>\n

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By Collin Binkley, Juan Pablo Arr\u00e1ez And Regina Garcia Cano WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Besides a social media post from President Donald Trump, the White House has said little about what he is calling \u201cTHE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY\u201d in Venezuela. Trump said the agreement announced Friday night would give the United States a stake in Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves, a step toward his goal of extracting energy from the country after American forces captured then-President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges. Venezuela\u2019s acting president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country\u2019s oil industry. In a televised address to the nation late Saturday, Rodr\u00edguez insisted Venezuela’s... <\/p>\n

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