After takeovers, Venezuela oil area languishes
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As part of his drive to install socialism in the OPEC nation, Chavez expropriated the companies contracted by state-run PDVSA, with promises of social prosperity and worker justice.
Over the months since then, protests have intensified so much the government sent troops to control the discontented workers. Many of the protesters sewed their lips together and chained their hands and feet to call the president’s attention to their plight.
Despite the protests, most of the workers don’t blame Chavez or his revolution, but individual managers of the state oil company.
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