Word: venezuela
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...Total ethics warrior is Jean-Michel Gires, 46, who is responsible for the company's sustainable development efforts. They include ensuring Total is working with local communities around the world and developing new sources of energy, including wind. Gires is especially proud of a recent $4 billion project in Venezuela that produces and refines extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco basin that a decade ago would have been left in the ground. As part of its efforts to support people living in the area, Total not only built schools, medical facilities and roads but also employed experts to study public...
...office and radical forces still playing on the xenophobic resurgence, such as Indian Leader Felipe Quispe, who has assembled his own “Indigenous Congress” outside the Bolivian capitol, the situation is far from settled. With far left Hugo Chavez leading next-door Venezuela into financial ruin, Bolivia stands particularly vulnerable; rumors of Chavez’s involvement in this latest uprising should be enough to rouse U.S. attention to this region’s fragility. If America learned nothing else from the last Brazilian economic crisis and its extraordinary domino effect, it is that...
MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
Nearly two months after Jeffrey R. Gu ’00 died in a hiking accident in Venezuela, his family and friends are wondering if the fall might have been caused by a controversial drug—and preparing to fight to see that it won’t happen again...
...night before the accident. In the hours between taking the medicine and embarking on the next day’s trip, Gu showed various signs of disorientation, said Jay F. Chen ’00-’01, a close friend of Gu who was travelling in Venezuela with...