�The Latin Beat, and Oil
Oil Issues In Latin America and China. Hugo keeps pecking away at the leftist, communist friends and even offered to help the�"Big Easy" but before you go thinking he is being altruistic read the USA Today article pointing out his policies:
Chavez has been traveling the hemisphere offering preferential oil deals, barters, and loans to leftist and left-of-center governments. In the past 30 days, the leader of the world's fifth-largest oil exporting country, has inked deals with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Thirteen Caribbean nations signed a deal for cheap oil in June. And since April, Cuba has been getting almost all of its oil from Venezuela in exchange for doctors and gym teachers. Read the rest:.USATODAY.com - Chavez seeks influence with oil diplomacy
CHINA will not be left behind--Everyone must do the cha cha cha!
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On Aug. 22, Venezuela said it expects to increase oil exports to China to 300,000 b/d by 2012 from the current level of 68,800 b/d. On Aug. 25, Ramirez said his country hopes eventually to supply 15-20% of China's oil imports.
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"The Power and the Glory" I am sure everyone has heard of it�or read it and if not you should but in the meantime take a gander at the real deal in Colombia and Venezuela.
Once again, the religious and political collide and the priests are murdered...."
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but read�on at Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution "One week after Pope Benedict wrote a letter to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, asking him to allow the Church full freedom of action, and got Chavez assurance that all was well, Chavista goons commandeered a church in a town in Venezuela �in the name of the people.�"
