“Chavez’s in-your-face style”
A nice piece on Venezuela's oil industry in today's Houston Chronicle: Touring a branch office in central Venezuela, an executive from the state-run oil company worked himself into a lather. Why? Because there weren't enough portraits of President Hugo Chavez hanging in the building. "I want a nice, big photo of the president in the ...
A nice piece on Venezuela's oil industry in today's Houston Chronicle:
A nice piece on Venezuela's oil industry in today's Houston Chronicle:
Touring a branch office in central Venezuela, an executive from the state-run oil company worked himself into a lather.
Why? Because there weren't enough portraits of President Hugo Chavez hanging in the building.
"I want a nice, big photo of the president in the main entrance," he barked at a press officer. "And that's an order."
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