Venezuela oil workers sure Chavez will win: union boss
Venezuela oil workers sure Chavez will win: union boss
Marianna Parraga and Daniel Wallis
Reuters
3:47 p.m. EDT, September 20, 2012
CARACAS (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela's oil workers union said on Thursday his members are not entertaining the possibility that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles could beat President Hugo Chavez in the October 7 election.
Wills Rangel, president of the United Federation of Oil Workers, told Reuters that workers' conditions had improved under 14 years of Chavez's self-styled revolution, especially following an oil industry strike a decade ago.
Thousands of staff were fired, and Rangel said those who remained at state oil company PDVSA were "deeply politicized" and understood their role in the president's socialist project.
"It's impossible for Capriles to win this year ... We the working class will not allow it," he said at his office, sitting before large pictures of Chavez and 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar, a small Cuban flag on his desk.
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