Venezuela's interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed a U.S.-trained economist to lead the country's main investment agency, a move widely seen as an attempt to attract foreign investment — particularly American — to the oil industry after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
Rodríguez named Calixto Ortega Sánchez, a former central bank chief with professional experience in the United States, to head the International Centre for Productive Investment. Ortega is replacing Alex Saab, a close ally of Maduro who was previously accused by Washington of money laundering and was removed from government posts last week.
