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Venezuela Assumes Control of Its Oil Fields

CARACAS, Venezuela, April 30 -- President Hugo Chavez's government will take control Tuesday of what might be the world's richest oil fields, a huge swath known as the Orinoco Belt that Big Oil has spent a decade and nearly $20 billion developing.
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