Word: venezuelan
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...Shouting Venezuelan girls play kickball in a courtyard. A fair-skinned British girl nearby answers a ringing pay phone in Spanish, jumps to answer a second phone in English, then jokes to a French girl at the adjacent food stand: "I don't know which language to answer...
...Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a garish knack for making the world think he's the most radical of radicals. So when the left-wing, anti-U.S. leader ascended a raucous stage in front of a petrochemical plant in eastern Venezuela today - May Day, the leftiest day of the year - and announced his government's takeover of the nation's lucrative heavy oil industry, it sent the usual panic through Washington and the international media. "It's national power!" shouted Chavez, who controls the hemisphere's largest crude reserves. "We can't have socialism if the state doesn...
...more than 75% of the world's oil reserves are controlled by national oil companies today. Of the world's top 20 oil-producing firms, 14 are state-run. And even though Chavez has now stripped foreign oil companies like Exxon Mobil of any majority stakes they had in Venezuelan oil production projects - mandating that his state-run company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), have at least 60% ownership from here on out - he's at least allowing those private multinationals to continue taking part in the drilling. Not so, for example, in Mexico or the world's largest oil producer...
...Carriles was freed on bail pending his trial on immigration fraud. Even the U.S. Justice Department objected to the release of Posada, who some believe was linked to a 1976 airline bombing that killed 73 people, including 24 members of the Cuban fencing team, and who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985. Posada, 79, who denies any involvement in the bombing, has been ordered to remain under house detention at his wife's apartment in the Miami area, where reaction was a mix of support and embarrassment...
President Evo Morales is not known as a friend of Washington - his left-wing politics, like those of his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, often put him at odds with the Bush Administration. But in Bolivia, it's often said that Morales owes his presidency in part to Washington, because it was U.S. efforts to eradicate coca cultivation that played a major role in propelling Morales into office...