Word: venezuela
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...benefits most from this war of words? Fidel and his brother Raśl Castro, who is likely to succeed him. With plenty of material support from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the embargo is not so painful as it once was, and heated U.S. rhetoric only bolsters their image at home as the island's anti-Yanqui defenders...
...seem to pale next to the climate change deficits. Fargione points out that if the U.S. managed to use 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2015 - as is mandated in last year's energy bill - it would still only offset 7% of projected energy demand. That won't put Venezuela or Iran out of business...
Wind-powered A commercial cargo ship that set sail Jan. 22 from Germany to Venezuela became the first to use computer-controlled kite technology. A 1,722-sq.-ft. (160 sq m) kite helps propel...
...with the price of oil. The baby steps in Bahrain aren't in league with democratic development elsewhere in the world, and the trends there can hardly be considered permanent. More important, how do you account for oil-rich countries as diverse as Norway, Britain, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico and Venezuela? And would the theory apply to oil-rich states in the U.S.? Prof. Karl says oil and democracy don't mix when the black gold dominates a country's exports. "Countries that are most dependent on oil are the least likely to liberalize," she says...
...Latin America, New Year's Eve is a more important celebration than Christmas. It is the one night when families make certain they're together. In Venezuela's most beloved poem, "The Grapes of Time," by Andres Eloy Blanco, an expatriate in Madrid weepily laments that he's not toasting midnight back in Caracas with his mother. That made it all the more emotional last week when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in his new role as mediator between the Colombian government and Colombia's fierce Marxist guerrillas, raised hopes that three of the rebels' hundreds of civilian hostages would...