NYTimes -- Venezuela Strikers Ordered to Resume Oil Production

Venezuela's Supreme Court ordered today that the state oil company, hobbled by an 18-day antigovernment strike that has choked off oil exports, must restart operations.

There is no step back," Juan Fernandez, a former financial planning manager at the oil company, said in a nationally televised news conference this evening. He argued that the government misinterpreted the court's decision and that the walkout "would not be affected."