Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and Chávez’s economic strategy depended on harnessing that wealth in order to address his country’s social problems. The first few years of his rule were dominated by his struggle to gain control of the country’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA.
委内瑞拉拥有世界上最大的石油储量，而查韦斯的经济策略依赖于利用这笔财富解决国内的社会问题。他执政的最初几年一直忙于夺取委内瑞拉国有石油公司PDVSA的控制权。