Article: Chavez: Venezuela Oil Output to Recover

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Dateline: BRASILIA, Brazil [image omitted]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday his country's oil industry, crippled by a monthlong general strike, is recovering and will reach its pre-strike capacity in 45 days. Domestic opponents said the claim was false.

Chavez made the comments to reporters after a meeting that stretched until 4 a.m. in a Brasilia hotel with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Both came to Brazil to attend the inauguration of the country's new president, former union leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Later Thursday, Chavez asked the Brazilian leader to send technical experts from Brazil's state-owned oil company to replace some of the 40,000 ...

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