{
  "id": 3980437,
  "title": "Washington negotiates stakes in Venezuelan oil fields with leases of up to a century",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/washington-negotiates-stakes-in-venezuelan-oil-fields-with-leases-of",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T14:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MercoPress",
    "slug": "mercopress",
    "url": "https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/28/washington-negotiates-stakes-in-venezuelan-oil-fields-with-leases-of-up-to-a-century"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}