Word: venezuela
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...Swiss corporations for the "blood and misery" the companies allegedly caused by doing business with South Africa's apartheid regime. The plaintiffs said Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse profited from loans to Pretoria between 1985 and 1993 while a U.N. embargo on trade with South Africa was in force. VENEZUELA Coup Fear President Hugo Chávez warned against fresh attempts to topple his government as police arrested a retired colonel who led a march through Caracas demanding Chávez's resignation. MEANWHILE Doomed Love Songs The loudest love songs in the ocean, sung by its largest animals...
Almost a year later, Hirschman provided medical assistance when pirates boarded a Swedish vessel off the coast of Venezuela and shot a sailor...
Uprising in Venezuela...
After the coup d'etat in Venezuela, thousands of democracy fighters demonstrated their support for the government [NOTEBOOK, April 22]. President Hugo Chavez should remain in office until the last day of the term to which he was democratically elected. His days will not be the same sort that other deposed leaders had to live through. ROBERTO F. LETAMENDI Aptos, Calif...
Suddenly there was a knock on Jimmy Carter's suite at his hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, interrupting his scheduled interview with Flora Lewis of the New York Times. It was a member of Fidel Castro's entourage telling Carter's advisor, Robert Pastor, that the Cuban dictator was even then walking down from his suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would...