Word: venezuela
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...Central America, and indeed there were. Vice President George Bush visited El Salvador and demanded in unequivocal terms an end to the political murders being carried out by right-wing extremists. Henry Kissinger, along with eight members of the bipartisan presidential commission he heads, was in Mexico and Venezuela gathering fact and opinion for the report that is scheduled to go to the President in early January. U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met with the President-elect of Venezuela and the President of Colombia...
...Kissinger commission traveled to Mexico City and Caracas to confer with leaders of the Contadora process, the regional peace-seeking effort undertaken by Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia. The group has proposed a draft treaty that would try to stop arms shipments into and between Central American countries, get rid of foreign military advisers and promote democracy. Those goals, Kissinger said in Mexico City, "seem to be consistent with U.S. objectives, or what should be U.S. objectives." Rebellions that arise indigenously, he said, "should not be the concern of the U.S." but should be "worked out by the people concerned...
...President, old woes he campaign slogan repeated in speeches and newspaper ads was blunt: "THANK GOD, THEY ARE FINALLY GOING." It was also prophetic. As celebrating citizens jammed the streets of Caracas last week, the results of Venezuela's sixth free presidential election in 25 years overwhelmingly confirmed that the ele gant presidential residence, La Casona, would be getting a new tenant. By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken...
Advised by U.S. Media Consultant Jo seph Napolitan, Lusinchi blamed outgoing President Luis Herrera Campins, 58, for all of Venezuela's many economic woes. Among them: a 4.5% drop during Herrera Campins' tenure in the country's gross domestic product ($69.3 billion in 1982) and a current unemployment rate of 20%. The key problem, however, is a foreign debt of about $34 billion, the result of years of uncontrolled government spending that eventually coincided with sharply reduced revenues from oil, Venezuela's principal foreign-exchange earner...
...voters forget the past shortcomings of the Social Christians and concentrate on the future. The result: not only did Lusinchi win a projected 57% of the 7.7 million votes cast, vs. 34.5% for Caldera, but Actión Democrática also gained comfortable majorities in both houses of Venezuela's 249-member Congress...