Halliburton From Thin Air

clipped from blogs.salon.com And then Ramirez takes us into Chavez' fantasy'land of promising imaginary projects and goals, when he says that in Venezuela we will have our own "Halliburton" which will provide oil services to Venezuela and other countries. This from the man who presided the genocide of Venezuela's oil technological capability when he fired not only 19,000 oil workers, but more importantly, 1,000 Masters and Ph.D.'s in oil and oil related areas that worked at Intevep, Venezuela's oil research and technology center, the number one center at the time on research in heavy crudes. But maybe his projects are like Chavez' 14 gift refineries to the world, or the project's with Argentina's Enarsa that have been kicked around for two years and not one has gotten off the ground. The problem is that while Ramirez and his kind are more concerned with funding political revolutionary projects elsewhere, than with the well being of Venezuelans. What a lying, cynical clown this man is!