Reprinted from NewsMax.com The Destruction of Petroleos de VenezuelaEmma Brossard, Ph.D.Tuesday, February 18, 2003 The destruction of the 2nd largest petroleum company in the world, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. has been a work in progress ever since Hugo Chavez became President of Venezuela, in February 1999. This great company, known as PDVSA (an acronym that became a proper noun), was the result of the hard work of a first class group of Venezuelan oilmen. After nationalization of the foreign oil companies, by the Carlos Andres Perez government, in January 1976, these well-trained Venezuelans (by their former foreign employers) melded together...