Venezuela is ready to accept U.S. investment in its oil, Nicolas Maduro said late on Thursday, in a stark softening of the rhetoric from the embattled Venezuelan leader. Maduro suggested serious talks between Venezuela and the United States in an interview aired on Venezuelan state TV late on New Year’s Day. “If they want Venezuela's oil, Venezuela is ready to accept U.S. investments like those of Chevron, when, where and how they want to make them,” Reuters quoted Maduro as saying in the interview. …