Word: venezuelan
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...Even without an educated palate, I can tell the difference between a 72% Madagascar and a 72% Venezuelan bean," sniffs Pierrick Chouard, owner of the American subsidiary of Michel Cluizel, a French chocolatier that puts a genealogy of its cocoa beans inside its gift boxes. In the U.S., the Colorado-based Chocolove takes its cue from another prestige consumable and sells a chocolate humidor, a cedar-lined box that protects the candy from the elements. Its president, Timothy Moley, can tell "whether or not the beans were ripe, whether they were fermented and cured properly and how long...
That difference is what Moises Kaufman is exploring. The Venezuelan-born playwright and director used a similar technique in his last play, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, drawing dialogue primarily from historical writings and transcripts. In the Shepard case, he saw a "watershed" contemporary event and enlisted members of his Tectonic Theater Project to help develop a stage work from it. The actors found the townspeople bruised by the media yet surprisingly willing to talk. "What helped was that we were clearly not experts and were groping our way," says cast member Greg Pierotti. The interlopers...
Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe...
...Colombian rebels who once promised to execute those responsible for the slaying of three U.S. citizens near the Venezuelan border seem unlikely to punish the real killers. A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) claimed at the time that the three U.S. humanitarian workers--Terence Freitas, 24, from California; Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, from Hawaii; and Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, from Wisconsin--were abducted and killed by a local squad leader acting without higher orders. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered March 4. But Colombian military intelligence intercepted a radio conversation between the squad leader...
Menchu's Nobel Prize was never revoked. She still stands by the truth of her account, blaming any problems on Elisabeth Burgos, the Venezuelan anthropologist who transcribed interviews with Menchu and actually wrote the book...