Oil Keeps Chavez Fighting

DAVID LUHNOW and JOSE DE CORDOBA
Wall Street Journal
April 6, 2006

Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez turned up this past weekend at two oil fields run by France's Total SA and Italy's ENI SpA to reclaim them on behalf of the government and Hugo Chavez, the country's fiery leftist president. Hoisting a Venezuelan flag over the fields, Mr. Ramirez said the move symbolized the return to state control after a decade of stewardship by private firms.


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