U.S. envoy talks with Venezuela's president Maduro amid crisis

By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. diplomat Tom Shannon met with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday to re-start talks between the ideologically-opposed governments amid a punishing economic crisis in the South American OPEC nation. Shannon, who led a similar rapprochement last year that stalled over the jailing of protest leader Leopoldo Lopez, also met with opposition figures on his visit to Caracas. During 17 years of socialist rule under Madur