Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict NYT | Top Stories Anatoly Kurmanaev, Julian E. Barnes and Julie Turkewitz 10 October 2025 at 17:24 Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Trump. © Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York TimesA statue of a hand holding a drilling rig near the headquarters of Venezuela’s state oil company in Caracas.