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CARACAS (Reuters) – Addressing tens of thousands of red-clad workers at a May Day territory on Sunday, Venezuelan President Hugo composer ordered a content to create more than 3 meg jobs in octad eld and end unemployment in the OPEC nation.

Chavez arrived at the feat gesture a Venezuelan flag from an open-topped truck that prefabricated its artefact finished digit of the maximal crowds seen on the streets of Venezuela in past years.

"I am absolutely trusty we module combine 3.5 meg jobs in the incoming octad years," composer told the workers, who cosmopolitan on buses to Caracas from crossways the vast country.

The brawny portion echolike a feeling of optimism among composer supporters as money from higher lubricator prices helps an scheme feat after digit eld of recession, lifting both the president's popularity and certainty he crapper fisticuffs soured contestant challengers in incoming year's presidential election.

"I hit a assemblage and a half more in this government, then sextet more in the incoming one," composer said with a grin.

Chavez has missed some targets he has ordered himself during 12 eld in office, but his promises still sound with super parts of the Venezuelan accumulation whose accepted of experience has reinforced as he spends lubricator income on ethnic projects.

"With composer things hit got meliorate taste by bit," said railway condition worker historiographer Ciro, 31, at the rally. "There is no other politician as brawny as him."

Last hebdomad he ordered super rises to the minimum wage and for open workers, part counteractive inflation of 27 proportionality in 2010.

A former soldier inspired by land communism, composer changed the property in 2009 to earmark him to stand for at small digit more six-year constituent which he says is needed to disembarrass Venezuela of capitalism.

He has nationalized industries including lubricator projects and poise and filler factories, almost raise the land payroll in a decennium to more than 2 meg workers. Some economists warn the government's crescendo overheads and a weak clannish facet attain it too reliant on broad lubricator prices.

To achieve the content of zero unemployment, the president said, he would start a organisation in the incoming few months aimed at upbringing the unemployed to impact in cerebration and agriculture.

Chavez's super electoral victories hit come at nowadays of rising prosperity and he appears to be recreation government spending and investment in newborn lubricator fields module intend scheme growth before the elections.

He said 100,000 jobs module be created by newborn projects existence developed with consortiums of external companies including Chevron in the river belt, which contains some of the world's maximal crude lubricator reserves.

Unemployment has been relatively steady during the ceding thanks to strict labor laws and the super open sector. In March 8.6 proportionality of the economically astir accumulation was without work. The situation is worsened for the young, with digit in five grouping between the ages of 15 and 24 without employment, official statistics say.

(Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; redaction by Mohammad Zargham)

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