Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more refineries are set up across South America, drug routes cross more and more borders, bringing previously untainted countries into some phase of the business. Sixteen months ago, customs seized 667 kilos of cocaine, at that time the largest haul in history, at an airport near Caracas, Venezuela. In Paraguay last September, officials intercepted 49,000 gal. of ether, acetone and hydrochloric acid, enough to process eight tons of cocaine; DEA officials speculate that influential Paraguayans might be involved in drug trafficking. Cocaine arrests in Trinidad soared to 150 in 1983 from three in 1978. In the Bahamas, three Cabinet...
Facing 40,000 roaring youths at a Caracas stadium last week, Pope John Paul II asked, "Will Venezuela's youth have the valor to be true Christians?" The crowd shouted, "Si." "And will they have the valor to construct a more just society?" Again a thundering "Si." "More fraternal and more peaceful?" Once more a booming affirmation...
...during the first phase of his twelve-day Latin American tour. The exchange, however, underscored a more important matter: John Paul was not just a barnstorming superstar generating good cheer, but a taskmaster issuing challenge upon challenge. When chants broke out in the stadium proclaiming the Pope to be Venezuela's friend, he ad-libbed, "Yes, I am your friend. Yes, I am a demanding friend...
...agreement largely settled a long-festering dispute over the price differentials between two major grades of oil, light and heavy. The light-crude producers like the United Arab Emirates needed lower official prices in order to remain competitive with less expensive heavy oil produced by countries like Kuwait and Venezuela. The group also took the symbolic step of abandoning Arab Light as the bench-mark price for all OPEC crude. Arab Light, once the world's most important oil, is now just another grade struggling in a world awash in oil. Admitted OPEC's current chairman, Subroto, who is Indonesia...
Despite the furor that it has aroused, liberation theology has never swayed all Latin America. In Venezuela, the Pope's first stop last week, church officials estimate that liberation theology has scarcely had any impact at all. The same is true of Argentina and Mexico...