Oil firms say Venezuela owes them billions over earlier investments

Wilmer Parra loads his fishing boat docked next to Petroleos de Venezeula’s oil rigs in Cabimas, Venezuela, on Nov. 23, 2022. Despite the Trump administration’s claims that it was targeting Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro over the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, the administration is now fixated on a very different Venezuelan export: oil. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By IVAN PENN Western oil companies have been fighting to recoup tens of billions of...