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AFP. 15 April 2002. Venezuela to continue supplying Cuba with oil: Chavez. CARACAS -- Venezuela will continue supplying oil to the government of President Fidel Castro in Cuba, President Hugo Chavez said Monday, only three days after failed coup leaders said they would stop the shipments. The decision by Venezuela's short-lived interim government to suspend oil exports to Cuba was a major threat to the island's economy. "Not a single barrel for Cuba," Edgar Paredes, a manager at the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, had proclaimed Friday. Chavez is Castro's closest ally in the Americas. Venezuela had been selling about 53,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba at a discounted price under an arrangement signed in 2000 between Chavez and Castro. Trade between the two nations went from 463.3 million dollars in 1999 to 912.4 million in 2000, according to the latest official figures, as Venezuela took over from Spain as Cuba's main trading partner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
