Reply #7: Can I get a witness? This is the first time I've seen spin actually admitted. [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

When you get into this article you'll see it is being spun viciously, with a VENGEANCE. It was only at the point I asked myself "what the hey?" that I saw this, at the top of the article:

Venezuela's Chavez backs oil chief despite criticism
Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:40PM EDT

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CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez endorsed his oil chief on Sunday despite repeated criticism from the opposition and some government supporters over his management of the industry, particularly over a lack of rigs.

"In the face of so many attacks against (state oil company PDVSA chief) Rafael Ramirez, I will make clear here that Rafael will be around a good while yet in PDVSA," Venezuela's president said on his weekly TV program that he hosted from the Orinoco oil belt.

"We have a tremendous colleague at the head of PDVSA and I call for support for him," Chavez added. "Carry on Rafael, you are a revolutionary."

Ramirez has been one of Chavez's closest aides in recent years, leading the president's drive to nationalize the OPEC nation's oil industry, which provides the bulk of the income that the leftist leader lavishes on the majority poor.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2932940320070729

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These are the same "majority poor" who were totally cut out of the package in all the years before, with NO access to medical treatment, many of them never having been to a doctor in their entire lives, no heating, plumbing, etc., etc. in their tin-roofed shacks crowded onto the fire-hazard communities around the cities, since no one could get the money together to even have a tiny plot of land to grow a garden, and a small group of people OWNED the entire country, and reaped the oil industry profits themselves.

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