What happens to Venezuelan oil when Chavez is gone?

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	What happens to Venezuelan oil when Chavez is gone?

BY SEAN COCKERHAM McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The end of Hugo Chavez could mean big changes for the struggling state-owned Venezuelan oil industry, which drives its nation’s economy, provides the money for Chavez’s export of socialism, and has helped prop up Cuba through subsidies of hugely discounted oil. Chavez, who is possibly in his final days after cancer-related surgery in Cuba, has used the state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA as a cash ...

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