Washington negotiates stakes in Venezuelan oil fields with leases of up to a century

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The negotiation covers around a dozen fields holding some 90 billion barrels of proven reserves, close to a third of the roughly 300 billion Venezuela has certified, the world's largesthttps://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/111295/100x80/ve.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0 12px 6px 0; border: 1px solid #333;" width="100" />
The United States government is negotiating with Venezuela's interim administration to acquire stakes in a group of the South American country's oil fields, under arrangements that would include leases of up to a hundred years, the outlets Axios and Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing unnamed senior US officials.

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