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Venezuela’s oil industry is in ruins. Reviving it won’t be easy

CABIMAS, Venezuela  — The pumps that brought prosperity from deep in the Earth’s crust are now mostly rusted relics of a storied past. The buildings that housed a prideful labor force are vandalized, colonized by squatters or boarded up. The schools, clinics, the manicured golf course — onetime amenities from an industry awash in petrodollars —…

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