U.S. Denies Trying to Lower Venezuelan Oil Production

U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield denied the U.S. is trying to undermine Venezuelan oil output, responding to an accusation by the country’s defense minister last month that a production drop was the result of a CIA- inspired plot.

“We aren’t trying to lower production of the state oil company or break off energy relations,” Brownfield said in an interview with Union radio in Caracas.
Bloomberg