Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jamaica, the conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga discovered shortly after its election last October that it desperately needed $100 million in operating funds. Seaga passed the word to a group of visiting U.S. and Venezuelan businessmen who were looking at ways to revive the island's near bankrupt economy. Shortly thereafter, Jamaica received a $50 million grant from a confidential Venezuelan government discretionary fund that may total as much as $500 million. An additional $50 million from Venezuela is now being funneled into the island, earmarked for road and airport development, housing, water supply and electrification...
...Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...
...Eastern League's brightest prospects is Holyoke's 19-year-old shortstop Gustavo Polidor, a Venezuelan who speaks no English. The Millers lost his services for a night when he and the team crossed into Canada for a tour of Niagra Falls during a stay in Buffalo. At the end of the excursion, the squad passed through customs--except for Polidor, who didn't have his passport. The shortstop was detained at the border while team officials frantically tried to send the papers north. Polidor was finally released after spending the night because the border police had no idea what...
...last week's program a commissioned work, Ausencias, by Venezuelan Alvaro Cordero-Saldivia, was forgettable. It is a busy, dense-textured work that seeks to combine elements of Afro-American music with academic compositional procedures-what the composer calls "a gradual unfolding of two musics that have a totally contrasting profile." Yet the whole proved less than the sum of its parts...
...Mexico sees with growing concern and displeasure Venezuelan and US involvement in security matters close to its own oil fields...