“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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