Word: venezuelan
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...between NAFTA and Mercosur have blossomed into a behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over the summit agenda. There are major uncertainties about how the meeting chemistry will be affected by the interaction among newcomers like U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada and the mercurial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías - alongside such veterans as the durable Jean Chrétien of Canada and Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso...
...Foreign Minister Lafer says a two-year speed-up would swamp domestic industries with a flood of low-priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down to Brasília last month to say that moving the date forward "would be for us a process of disintegration." Then Chávez asked for Venezuela to become an associate member of Mercosur...
...developing nations of Asia and Latin America, which depend on foreign capital, there is apprehension about how President Bush would respond to any of the financial crises that are bubbling just below the surface of those regions. Moises Naim, editor of the monthly Foreign Policy and a former Venezuelan Trade and Industry Minister, joked that the attitude in Davos was best summed up by someone who didn't come. "Fidel Castro said he just hoped Bush would not turn out to be as stupid as he seems," said Naim. In addition to Bush's mandate problems, a sharply divided...
...smaller but no less virulent National Liberation Army (ELN), which has 5,000 fighters. His AUC members, who look as though they were outfitted from the back pages of Soldier of Fortune magazine, number 8,000. They operate in 25% of Colombian territory, mainly in the north, along the Venezuelan border and in the central Magdalena River valley. But in the past month, AUC forces pushed deep into the southern Putumayo zone, challenging the FARC's dominance over 150,000 acres of coca plantations--which produce more than half the U.S.'s annual intake of cocaine from Colombia...
...article "Oil's New Boss," about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias [BUSINESS, Oct. 9], noted his seemingly contradictory characteristics, but they are what make him a unique leader. His refusal to allow U.S. military planes to fly over his country and his turning down U.S. emergency aid make him seem like an antiglobalist. But his playing host to the OPEC summit showed he is an outward-looking individual who does not always say yes to anything or anyone. ERIK B. DAYRIT Quezon City, the Philippines...