CARACAS: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday (Monday in Manila) named a general to head debt-ridden Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and ordered a “total restructuring” at the state oil giant, in a move that emphasized military support for his regime.

Maduro announced on state television that he had named Major Gen. Manuel Quevedo of the National Guard as oil minister and president of PDVSA.

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