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Dinner With the Folks Who Made Chavez Possible
“We created Chavez,” he said, passing the foi gras. “We spent the last half a century building bigger walls around our properties rather than trying to improve our country. He is entirely of our making.”
Striking oil workers and relatives holding Venezuelan flags head out on
a boat to show their support for the crews of oil tankers anchored in
Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, as some crews refuse to make their
deliveries, December 6, 2002. A crippling nationwide strike by foes of
President Hugo Chavez cut further into the vital oil operations of the
world’s No. 5 crude exporter on Dec. 6, reducing oil flows at the
wellhead. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
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“We created Chavez,” he said, passing the foi gras. “We spent the last half a century building bigger walls around our properties rather than trying to improve our country. He is entirely of our making.”