Word: venezuela
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Such is the dismal level of leadership in Venezuela, a country that has always functioned as if oil could substitute for government. For now, the best the U.S. can hope for is the recovery of the national oil company, which Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez insists "can be accomplished by the middle of February" if the strike ends soon. But this crisis, like most curses, won't lift so easily. --With reporting by Owain Johnson/Caracas and Perry Bacon/Washington
...VENEZUELA Friends in Need The international community stepped up its efforts to end the political crisis ruining the economy of Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil producer. A "Group of Friends," including the U.S., Brazil and Spain, pledged to help President Hugo Chavez negotiate an end to the crisis. Since Dec. 2 opponents have used a general strike to force the leftist President to call immediate elections. Chavez met U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for talks, which were inconclusive...
...first contact with Tikopia, by helicopter, discovered that all of the islanders had survived by sheltering in mountain caves. Regional leaders criticized the Solomon Islands government for its slow response to the calamity. The first relief boat was due to arrive a week after the cyclone had struck. VENEZUELA Street Fight At least two people were shot to death and dozens injured as fighting erupted in the capital, Caracas, between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chávez. The violence broke out when tens of thousands of protesters at an antigovernment demonstration marched to an army barracks to call...
Maybe we're living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. Turned off by coverage of terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobbled up huge scoops of comfort news. Reading the newspaper this year was like reading that newspaper they hand out at Colonial Williamsburg, the one with headlines like SILVERSMITH THROWN IN GAOL FOR STEALING GOODIE SMITH'S PEANUT SOUPE RECIPE. O.K., I've never read that newspaper. But in the New York Times, which I occasionally read during boring meetings...
...Stein is actually a Dutch name. Maybe we're living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. It just feels good to retreat to topics previously explored and controversies already settled. Instead of devoting extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobble up huge scoops of recycled news. Reading the newspapers this year was like settling back with some frozen-in-time Austrian Zeitung whose headline declares governor of Carinthia denies he worships Hitler. Wait, I think that really...