Word: venezuela
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...came to Europe, which company prepares it better, or where to get the best mole. It is how cacao is grown and the way the chocolate market functions from cacao pod to couverture. To answer this question, Rosenblum travels to the most common sources of cacao—including Venezuela and what he calls West Africa’s “chocolate coast...
While Brazil and Argentina struggle, the two other largest debtors, Mexico and Venezuela, are continuing to make strides toward easing their credit crunches. Venezuela, which has a 16.9% inflation rate that is modest by Latin American standards, has reached a tentative accord with its banks to stretch out payments on $20.8 billion of its $35 billion debt over 12½ years. Bankers have agreed to give Mexico until 1999 to finish making payments on $28.6 billion of its $96 billion debt. Mexico gained the confidence of the bankers by reducing its inflation rate from 100% in 1982 to 59% last year...
...Frogs Make a Right? When Australians imported cane toads from Venezuela in 1935 to eat the beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
Whether or not Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is the next Fidel Castro, the leftist firebrand has mastered the Cuban's art of pushing the U.S.'s buttons--including the ones on our gas pumps. Venezuela is the U.S.'s fourth-largest oil supplier (15% of U.S. imports), a nearby and reliable source that few in Washington want to alienate. But the visit to Caracas last week by Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong was the latest reminder that Chávez, a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy, wants to cut Venezuela's dependence on the U.S. market and start exporting...
...navigate at first. But a sticker below the keyboard outlines the basics, so you will be messaging in no time. And really, couldn't you use less multitasking anyway? DataWind, founded and operated by brothers Raja and Suneet Tuli, is rolling out the PocketSurfer in the U.S., Canada and Venezuela. It's available at datawind.com for $199.--By Sean Gregory