Venezuela's Chavez accuses former oil officials of favoring foreign companies/Chávez arremete contra los antiguos dirigentes de la petrolera estatal

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused former Venezuelan officials of allowing foreign oil companies "to rob" Venezuela's immense petroleum wealth, saying they should be charged with crimes. Former executives at state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, permitted international companies to blatantly violate contracts by extracting billions of barrels of light, sweet oil without investing in technology required to produce heavy crude, Chavez said ( full information)/ El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, culpó a los antiguos directivos de la petrolera estatal Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) de permitir que las empresas transnacionales 'robaran' la riqueza nacional. Chávez dijo que los ex directivos firmaron contratos con las empresas extranjeras y éstas los violaron, extrayendo a cambio 'mil millones de barriles de petróleo sin invertir dinero en tecnología para producir crudo pesado' ( información completa)