Word: bolivia
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...being tapped because both Venezuela and Colombia claim the region. Politics also hinders Brazil's explorations. The government has invited the oil majors in, but it has still restricted foreign exploration within 155 miles of its borders (including areas lying next to Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where oil has already been found) because of national security...
...readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru-as well as several other countries offered to take in the refugees. The U.S., which has admitted 800,000 Cubans since Castro came to power in 1959, will accept a "fair share of the refugees," said a State Department spokesman...
...sort of naivete or ideological partisanship which determines "guilt" of an international development adviser by the regime with which he "associates." In my career in the Agency for International Development (AID), I have worked with such motley regimes as those of Torrijos in Panama, Velasco in Peru, Banzer in Bolivia, Burnham in Guyana and Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work with a clear conscience in ways...
ARNOLD C. HARBERGER made a name for himself doing cost-benefit analyses of development projects in such far-flung places as Chile and Columbia, Uruguay and Bolivia, Panama and Mexico. He has written dozens of articles and a book, Project Evaluation, which explain how to calculate rationally the pluses and minuses of development projects...
...bringing in business, Harberger is a sound choice. He has hundreds of students working in governments and universities throughout Latin America. He personally has consulted for dozens of governments--from Mexio to Bolivia, from Costa Rica to Chile. He is experienced and he has the contacts...