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| | Drillbits & Tailings: May 3, 1999: Page Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | In towns like El Tejero, in the eastern state of Monagas, residents say Jose Vicente Pereira, their local union leader, has ruled the town for 25 years like a personal fiefdom, handing out jobs in exchange for bribes, building a business empire with the proceeds and founding his own political party allied to state government. |
 | | Unfortunately Marcano was shot and killed in March at Schlumberger's Rig 78 on the edge of town when his group was attacked by an angry mob of armed unionists, led by Pereira's son, Nanin. |
 | | Monagas State Congress president, Jose Boada has laid the blame for the riots squarely on the shoulders of Luis Ortiz, head of the unemployed oil workers committee, who wants the Assembly to strip Pereira of his parliamentary immunity, to face charges in the slaying. |
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