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Chavez seeks 20 year prison terms for strike leaders
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demanded 20 year terms for Carlos Fernandez and Carlos Ortega over a two month nationwide strike that crippled oil production, costing over four billion dollars. Fernandez was jailed. Ortega went into hiding as protests over the arrest grew in Maracaibo and Caracas.
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