| Rio de Janeiro (Platts)--2Jan2003 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not study sending engineers from state oil company Petrobras to help restart Venezuela's downed refineries despite a request by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to do so, Lula's spokesman said Thursday. Chavez made the request for engineers from Brazil during a meeting with Lula, as the president is known here, shortly after Lula took office Jan 1. The engineers would replace PDVSA employees who are on strike. The Brazilian spokesman also said Petrobras will review a Venezuelan request to divert a tanker with 520,000 bbl of gasoline to Caracas' port. The ship is currently at another, undisclosed, Venezuelan port. |
It'll work out okay for Chavez and his partners. Until the troops and military police run out of ammunition, or decide to side against him....
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