(Reuters) - The Caribbean OPEC nation's economy is growing fast on the back of bumper oil prices and the president's generous social spending. Venezuelan crude averaged $59.21 per barrel in the last week.
"Although the official figures have not been published, we now have very solid figures. Our economy has grown about 7 percent in the first quarter of 2007," he told a crowd in the central state of Guarico.
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