VOL. XLV

No 14

8-April-2002

VENEZUELA/OPEC

PDVSA Executives Bring Dispute To Boil, Government Guarantees No Disruption In Oil Sector

Astrike staged by executives at Venezuelas state-owned oil company PDVSA on 4April taken to press their demands that the government remove fivenewly-appointed directors and appoint a transitional board, escalatedpolitical tension throughout the country andrebounded onto world oil markets, forcing further price rises in an atmospherealready made tense by violence in...