FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez speaks during the presentation of the 2013 results at the headquarters of the state-run oil company PDVSA in Caracas June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo
CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuela's powerful former oil czar Rafael Ramirez said on Tuesday he resigned from his job as U.N. envoy on orders of the president, a sign of growing rifts in the Socialist Party once firmly united under late leader Hugo Chavez.
Sources told Reuters last week that leftist President Nicolas Maduro fired Ramirez, a political rival who was thought to have presidential ambitions, and summoned him back to Caracas from New York.
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