Word: venezuela
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...CHARGED. CARLOS FERNANDEZ, business leader who headed a two-month national strike against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez; on charges of rebellion and incitement; in Caracas. Although the strike failed to oust Chavez from power, it crippled the country's key oil industry and resulted in $4 billion in business losses. His arrest is part of a government crackdown on its political opponents...
...Hammoud has been convicted of using his illicit income to help fuel Hizballah, the Lebanon-based, anti-Israel terrorist army. For his crime, he faces up to 155 years in prison. Federal prosecutors are convinced he was a young extremist militant before he gained entry to the U.S. through Venezuela in 1992 with a $200 fake visa. They maintain that he stayed in the U.S. by entering into first one, and then another, phony marriage to American women - all the while still engaged to another woman in Lebanon...
...different sort of complaint came from neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler, whose scientific sleuthing among clusters of families around Venezuela?s Lake Maracaibo afflicted with Huntington?s disease paved the way for the identification of the gene for the fatal ailment and a test for its detection. She noted that treatment for the disease is no better now that it was when her mother died of it in 1978. That?s at least partly because, she said, drug companies aren?t interested in developing ?orphan drugs? for diseases with a relatively low incidence of occurrence. Thus, without the prospect of a cure...
...closed-door meeting in Washington comes amid a frenzy of war preparations that has helped drive oil prices above $35 per bbl., from $20 a year ago. A one-third cutback in petroleum production by Venezuela, beset by a political crisis, has contributed to the price increase, leaving the U.S. more dependent on Middle Eastern crude. Americans are also weathering an exceptionally cold winter, which is boosting demand for heating oil. At the gas pump, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline is $1.53 per gal., up 43¢ from the price 12 months ago and 11¢ just since...
...VENEZUELA Struck Out In a sign that a two-month-old general strike is drawing to an end, the National Banking Council announced that banks will resume normal opening hours from Feb. 2. The move followed the reopening of many businesses, which are struggling to avoid bankruptcy. But oil workers at the heart of the campaign vowed to continue. The strike, intended to unseat leftist President Hugo Chávez, is estimated to have cost at least $4 billion and seven lives. Diplomats from six countries met in the capital, Caracas, to help end the conflict...