Venezuela to use US-brokered oil sale to boost battered currency

Venezuelasaid Tuesday it would start using revenues from a US-brokeredoilsale to shore up its battered currency, as families waited in anguish for more prisoners to be released.

Interim presidentDelcy Rodriguezconfirmed that her country had received $300 million from Washington's sale of Venezuelan crude and said she would use it to prop up the bolivar against the dollar.

The dollar is Venezuela's de facto