Chavez Rewards Oil Tanker Recovery Workers

CARENERO, VENEZUELA - DECEMBER 27: President Hugo Chavez listens to a speech at a fuel distribution plant located 93 miles east of Caracas December 27, 2002 in Carenero, Venezuela. Chavez decorated military and oil workers who were involved in the recovery of the Pilin Leon vessel whose crew had stranded the oil tanker in Maracaibo Lake. Venezuela is in its fourth week of a crippling strike that has virtually shut down Venezuela's vital oil industry. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)