Word: venezuela
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...crime-ridden barrio of Petare on Caracas' east side is, for obvious reasons, not considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its streets are filled with sewage. Most vacationers in Venezuela would opt for the country's tropical Caribbean beaches. That's why neighbors peered out of their windows inquisitively when a recent caravan of Americans climbed up the steep slopes of the country's largest barrio, which many middle- and upper-class Venezuelans dare not enter. The group, from professors to real estate agents, ages...
...Dorchester, Mass., and Kathleen Cloherty are the two newest female officers.“It means a lot to have this opportunity,” says Kerr. “I feel good about being able to help other women.”Jose Chang, who was born in Venezuela and immigrated to the U.S. in 1980, says he found the HUPD job offer by surfing the internet.A graduate of Emerson College, Chang says, with a chuckle, that he was drawn to the department by its relatively high salary.Catalano agreed, saying that in addition to the department?...
...share of gas and oil revenues it wants, while making sure foreign companies like Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol don't face expropriation of the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investments and infrastructure they have staked in the Andean nation. That balance will probably require Venezuela to help subsidize the nationalization by pouring some of its own prodigious petro-wealth into Bolivia's threadbare state energy company, YPFP...
...told TIME before his January inauguration that "the foreign companies have to be subordinate to the Bolivian people." But Mares and other experts warn that the fact that Morales sent armed troops into the country's gas and oil fields this week - and that he brought in auditors from Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly, Petroleos de Venezuela, to seize and examine the books of the foreign energy firms operating in Bolivia - may not have been the most tactful thing to do before sitting down with Brazil and Argentina...
...Bolivia's actions in many ways simply mirrored Chavez's very similar moves. Venezuela's oil industry was nationalized 30 years ago, but last month Chavez himself put the screws on foreign oil and gas firms operating in Venezuela by raising their taxes and royalties and forcing them to concede majority stakes in their projects to the government. Few plan to pull out of Venezuela, however, given the record profits they're earning there. And with crude prices at astronomical levels, Chavez has used his petro-largesse - including programs to provide cash-strapped neighbors with cheaper access to Venezuelan...