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Brazilian Oil Workers Refuse to Replace Stiking Venezuelans***RÍO DE JANEIRO.- Los trabajadores petroleros brasileños rechazarán una posible invitación para sustituir a los venezolanos que están en huelga en su país, advirtió el director del Sindicato Unificado de Petroleros de Sao Paulo, Antonio Carlos Spis. "El petrolero brasileño no es un frustra huelgas. Somos una categoría reconocida por nuestra actuación combativa y si respetamos las huelgas en Brasil ¿por qué no lo haríamos en otro país?", dijo Spis, que también es presidente de la Central Unitaria de los Trabajadores (CUT) en el estado de Sao Paulo, en declaraciones publicadas hoy por la prensa. El líder sindical hizo la advertencia dos días después de que el presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, en un encuentro con el mandatario brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, solicitara el envío de técnicos de la petrolera brasileña Petrobras a Venezuela para superar la huelga en su país.***
516 posted on 01/06/2003 1:52:11 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Bush: U.S. oil reserves locked up tight - Chavez: claims role of "oil commander"*** WASHINGTON -- The Venezuelan crisis has prompted calls for the United States to tap into the nation's strategic oil reserves, but analysts say the White House is saving that option for another emergency: war with Iraq. Gasoline prices in Houston are up 40 percent from a year ago. Supplies of heating oil already are low in the Northeast. Some Gulf Coast refineries may have to cut back operations because of a lack of Venezuelan crude. "The next few weeks are likely to be very interesting," the U.S. Energy Information Administration warned in a report issued last week about shrinking reserves. With the crisis escalating, refiners such as Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is heavily dependent on Venezuelan crude, have asked the Bush administration repeatedly to open the spigot on the 599-million-barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve. ***
517 posted on 01/07/2003 2:31:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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