Venezuelan lawmakers approve easing state control of oil industry

By REGINA GARCIA CANO

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s legislature on Thursday approved opening the nation’s oil sector to privatization, reversing a tenet of the self-proclaimed socialist movement that has ruled the country for more than two decades.

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