Word: rez
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...less certain that PDVSA really recovered. Before the strike, Venezuela pumped more than 3 million bbl. of oil a day (m.b.d.). Chávez and his loyal Energy Minister, Rafael Ramírez, who is also PDVSA's president, say they're back to 3.2 m.b.d., but even OPEC says Venezuela's output is 2.4 m.b.d. PDVSA's exploration and production vice president, Luis Vierma, warned last July of an "operational emergency" because of a lack of drilling rigs. In recent years, there has been a troubling string of accidents; and oil corruption, the blight that Chávez vowed to eradicate, became...
...vast social-welfare crusade that has helped reduce official poverty and jobless rates appreciably. PDVSA runs many of the programs, and while that might sound more like Marx than Rockefeller, it "reflects our right to set globalization's terms in our people's favor for once," Ramírez has told TIME. Critics say it also means a hyperpoliticized PDVSA, in which Ramírez demands employee allegiance to Chávez and his Bolivarian revolution...
Eric M. Wahl, a former employee at Tufts’s student-run cafe The Rez, is skeptical of discrimination being the explanation for longer wait times...
...Javier Pérez Royo, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sevilla, the courts' response in both cases has been disproportionate. "All they're doing is saying, 'I'm a republican and I don't want a monarchy,'" he says of the arrested. "That's not a crime. That's an exercise in freedom of expression. If anything, what has damaged the monarchy is the government's response. They're not only making a juridical mistake, but a political...
...crossed in many places: Juárez, Tijuana, Tecate. It's sort of a ritual of humiliation. You get asked questions you don't know how to answer because they're ridiculous, like "Where do you come from?" I'm, like, "Are you serious? From Mexico. Where else...