Chavez adresses the nation, nothing new

January 6, 2003

Chavez spoke on TV for two hours tonight. He tried to project the image that the oil industry is not functioning beacuse of sabotage, rather than the reality taht there aren’t enough skilled workers to run it. He gave numbers that are very high compqred with what the striking oil workers are saying. So far, the predictions of the oil worrkers have been more real than those of the Government. It is clear that the new strategy is to blame everything on “sabotage”, he also threatened to bring to trial all those responsible of the sabotage for their crimes, however, I know for a fact that no plant was transferred to the new managers of PDVSA without a detailed description signed by both parts of the status of operation, shutdown, etc..Chavez threatened with the state of emergency but didn’t announce it.

This entry was posted on January 6, 2003 at 12:22 am and is filed under Venezuela.

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