The United States imposed economic sanctions on the regime of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in 2017, creating a years-long diplomatic stalemate between the countries until a high-level delegation of U.S. officials arrived on March 5 to discuss the easing of sanctions and supplemental oil resources. At a follow-up on March 11, Venezuelan foreign minister Felix Plasencia said Maduro was willing to do business with U.S. enterprises again. “We’ve never asked American companies to leave the country … President Nicolas Maduro said many times that we welcome American oil companies to invest and develop oil business in Venezuela,” Plasencia commented during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey. Plasencia said that Venezuela remains a firm ally of Russia, and the country plans to increase oil production up to 2 million barrels per day by the end of the year with the help of what he called “reliable partners” like China, Iran, and Russia. However, …