Vice President says reinstatement confession letter is a fake

www.vheadline.com Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 1:49:21 PM By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Executive Vice president Jose Vicente Rangel has denied an opposition 'shadow' Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) board allegation that oilmen willing to return to work must first sign a confession before they will be allowed to work.

Rangel made the comment during a site inspection at the Guaraguao refinery ... “it’s like the spin put out by the same people regarding the supposed death of an oil worker at the El Palito refinery ... and he shows up on the President’s Sunday radio address.”

Referring to the opposition’s attempt to have President Chavez Frias tried in an international tribunal for crimes against humanity, Rangel replies that PDVSA “terrorists” should be tried internationally for disrupting the country’s key industry.

Arrogant PDVSA rebels argue that only 30 of 5,000 persons have returned to work in western Zulia and that the rest will not accept any offer of a pardon ... "we already pardoned the government in April for insulting us."