Word: venezuela
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When a nation doesn't have a great wealth of winter sportsmen it has to improvise. Venezuela is a case in point. The South American country's three-man team in the luge competition will consist of Werner and Christopher Hoeger, residents of Boise, Idaho, and Julio Cesar Camacho, who hangs out in Calgary, Canada. No matter where they live, the Hoegers have already established an Olympic record?as the first father and son to compete together in the luge. Father Werner, 48, on a year-long sabbatical from his teaching job at Boise State University, is happy just...
...Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that he and his brother-in-law were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995. Menem insisted the arms sales, officially bound for Panama and Venezuela, were legal, but a corruption inquiry into possible profiteering continues...
...Moisés Naím is editor of Foreign Policy, and former Trade and Industry Minister of Venezuela...
Among the remaining members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela and Nigeria are the biggest exporters to the United States, accounting for 1.5 million BPD and 0.9 million BPD in 2000, respectively. This puts OPEC supplies to the U.S. at just over 5.1 million BPD. Somewhat surprisingly, non-OPEC nations account for 5.9 million BPD, meaning that OPEC accounts for only 46 percent of American imports. Among the non-OPEC states, we receive 1.7 million BPD from Canada, 1.3 million BPD from Mexico, and 0.3 million each from Colombia, Norway and the United Kingdom...
...from the Persian Gulf. According to the Energy Information Administration of the DOE, such alternatives are available. Russia exports a net (production minus internal consumption) 4.3 million BPD alone, of which we capture virtually nothing. Norway exports 3.1 million BPD, of which we get only 10 percent. Venezuela, an exporter of 2.7 million BPD, sends only 55 percent, or 1.5 million BPD to the U.S. Nigeria exports 1.9 million BPD, of which only 0.9 million BPD, or 47 percent, arrives in the U.S. Mexico, which directs 1.3 of its 1.4 million BPD exports to the United States, is contributing just...