(Reuters) -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plan to pay for COVID-19 vaccines through oil shipments aims to sideline the country's opposition, which had made strides in securing inoculations, analysts and opposition lawmakers said on Monday.
Maduro proposed on Sunday an "oil-for-vaccines" deal, without providing details on how such a program would work. The crisis-stricken OPEC nation's crude exports have plummeted since the United States slapped sanctions on state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela in January 2019.
