Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many already have, and that is the problem as the U.S. sees it. So far, seven Rio signators have ignored the treaty in order to maintain or establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, including, most recently, Venezuela and Colombia. Although the U.S. has no plans to soften soon its own stance on Cuba, it is accepting the inevitable. It now prefers that the OAS formally end the ban rather than doing it de facto...
...years later the CIA brought 60 Dominican exiles to a secret site in Venezuela, intending to use them as the spearhead of an invasion force to overthrow and kill Trujillo. But the Dominicans decided that the mission would be suicidal and backed out. In 1961, the CIA turned over three fast-firing M-l carbines and 500 rounds of ammunition concealed in a box of groceries to an intermediary for delivery to Angel Severo Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from...
...Japan. Now prices have collapsed, largely because recession has cut world demand (see chart). The declines have helped slow the increase in living costs in most industrialized nations but have also reduced the export earnings of some developing countries. Many of their leaders are echoing the cry of Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez for a "new economic order" based on higher materials prices, and they are insisting that the subject be discussed, along with oil, at any international energy conference...
...cold-banished from the councils of its hemispheric neighbors in the Organization of American States, and the victim of a formal diplomatic and economic embargo imposed by the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. Or so it has been in theory. In practice, ten countries, including Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina, have resumed diplomatic relations with the Western Hemisphere's only Communist government. Despite the embargo, trade between Cuba and OAS nations is growing rapidly, and a number of foreign subsidiaries of American firms participated in a Mexican-sponsored trade fair in Havana in March. As one Mexican foreign...
...four OPEC members (Algeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela) joined forces with the developing nations to insist that a later conference would have to consider price-stabilizing arrangements for a wide range of commodities, not just...