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#oil-trade

The new Venezuelan president referred to the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro as a stain that contaminates the relationship between the two countries and asserted that drug trafficking and human rights were an excuse for the U.S. intervention, because the real motive is Venezuelan oil. On Wednesday, the state-owned oil company PDVSA announced the existence of trade negotiations with the United States, just four days after the capture of the Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores.

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