Maduro vows to free some jailed activists, raise Venezuela oil output
Venezuela's newly re-elected President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday pledged to release some jailed opposition activists, boost the OPEC member's tanking oil production and open dialogue with business leaders. He gave little in the way of specifics and some of the promises were repetitions of previous vows that have not come to pass. Maduro won a Sunday election that critics at home and abroad condemned as a farce cementing his autocracy, at a time when the oil-rich nation is suffering from increasingly dire food shortages, health crises, and ...
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