Low oil prices and plunging output have seen Venezuela's Hugo Chavez come groveling back to U.S. oil firms for new investment after abusing them earlier. But Big Oil, once bitten, should now be twice shy.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reappeared on television Tuesday a week and a half after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba.
President Hugo Chavez said Monday that he personally spoke with some inmates by phone before prisoners engaged in a three-week armed standoff at a Venezuelan penitentiary agreed in negotiations with authorities to come out and be moved to other jails.
A three-week prison standoff that pitted armed inmates against troops ended Friday as Venezuelan officials said the last of more than 1,600 inmates filed out and agreed to be moved to other prisons.
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