30 percent of Venezuelan oil monopoly's workers lose jobs

Thursday, February 13, 2003

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez has fired more than 30 percent of the work force at the state oil monopoly for participating in a 2-month-old general strike that sought to unseat him, a spokesman for the dissident workers said Wednesday.

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