The
state-owned
player
said
it
stood
with
oil
workers
across
the
nation
as
the
South
American
oil
powerhouse
entered
seven
days
of
official
mourning
after
Chavez
lost
his
battle
with
cancer
on
Tuesday.
"We're
knee
on
the
ground
around
[Hugo]
Chavez
and
the
Bolivarian
revolution,"
said
company
president
and
Oil
Minister
Rafael
Ramirez.
Ramirez
was
quick
to
tie-in
the
future
of
Venezuela’s
economy,
politics
and
society
with
the
oil
industry,
following
on
from
Chavez’s
nationalisation
of
the
country’s
main
earner.
"The
key
to
driving
the
oil
industry
is
in
the
hands
of
his
hundred
thousand
valiant
men
and
women
who
have…
