Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean beaches, its expanses of jungle, its kinetic, polyglot capital, have long made Venezuela a fascinating place for off-the-beaten-trackers to visit. More important, for six decades the country has been sort of an ancillary Texas, supplying the U.S. with immense quantities of cheap and handy oil. Now, riding on the rapid ascent of petroleum prices, Venezuela is fast becoming one of the most formidable nations in the Western Hemisphere...
...cartel members agreed to accept France's invitation to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela and Algeria to represent OPEC at a preliminary meeting in Paris on April 7. They will sit down with representatives of the U.S., Japan and the Common Market countries, along with delegates from Brazil, India and Zaire. The April meeting will lay the groundwork for a full-dress conference between oil producers, industrial nations and Third World countries later...
...Chileans living and studying in Massachusetts, together with such wide and representative organizations as. The World Council of Churches. The Organization of American States. The Catholic Church of Santiago. The World Bank Review The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Governments of Mexico, Sweden, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Italy (among others) have a very different view of contemporary Chile from the one held by Nicolas Bilbikopf (The Mail, January...
...Congress barred Venezuela and Ecuador from receiving preferential tariffs because of their membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. By so doing, Kissinger feels, Congress hindered his attempt to shore up U.S. relations with Latin America...
Latin America is also enmeshed in an arms buildup. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...