Venezuela's Maduro willing to hold 'serious' talks with US


Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro attends a year-end salutation to military forces in La Guaira, Venezuela December 28, 2025. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

Jan 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said ‌in a New Year's interview that his country is willing to receive U.S. investment in its oil sector, ‌coordinate in the fight against drug trafficking and hold serious talks with the United States.

"We must start ‌to speak seriously, with the facts in hand," Maduro said in his annual interview with a Spanish journalist, originally published in Mexican newspaper La Jornada and broadcast on Venezuelan state television on New Year's Day.

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