Word: venezuela
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...Latin American leaders are willing to work with President Obama. Even President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been overwhelmingly positive, saying that, “If he wants to converse with the Venezuelans, we are here at the order without conditions.” And, in a recent letter to Obama, 300 regional experts wrote that “U.S. prestige in the region is now at a historic low… Our hope is that you will embrace the opportunity to inaugurate a new period of hemispheric understanding and collaboration for the common welfare...
...make ends meet until this summer. “We’re not even making enough to cover overhead,” he said. “Paying such a high rent here is just unrealistic at this point.” Vanessa R. Levy, a tourist from Venezuela who was browsing the store yesterday, said that she still found the closing disheartening. “It’s a sign of the economic crisis, and in this time jobs are lost and ideas are gone,” Levy said. The “Life is Good?...
...director, Leon Panetta, told journalists that it was important to know how the global economic downturn is affecting the stability and foreign policies of key U.S. allies and rivals, especially China, Russia and countries in Latin America. He singled out Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela as countries in particularly dire straits. The briefing will also be shared with "key players in the Administration." The objective, Panetta said, is to "give policymakers a feel for what's going on ... so they can use it [in decision-making...
...jointly announced a clean-energy dialogue between Canada and the U.S., in part intended to develop alternative energy sources and reduce carbon emissions from Canada's tar sands. Northern Alberta's tar sands are the single biggest supplier of foreign oil to the U.S., ahead of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, but the extraction process is energy-intensive...
...Eliminating term limits brings Venezuela further from democracy and closer to a one-party socialist dictatorship. In any country, incumbents enjoy a huge advantage in name recognition and free media coverage that puts legitimate challengers at a disadvantage. Term limits also help prevent a trend toward career politicians who can grow complacent or unresponsive to public need...