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January 28, 2006
Chavez Bad! We are Good!
Why is it bad for PDVSA (Venezuela's national oil company) to provide heating fuel to the needy through CITGO, but okay for USAID to be folded into the State Department -- where it will become an even more blatant tool of our foreign policy? (Besides, PDVSA does not require that people who purchase oil from CITGO also buy other Venezuelan products at arbitrary prices -- the way USAID forces "aid" recepients to purchase U.S. grains. Not only does this mean the aid money does not help the local economy and local production, it often results in great waste and expense as grains get transported accross oceans.)
Posted by zeynep at January 28, 2006 09:35 AM
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Zeynep,
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I rather suspect they're on the right track.
Posted by: at January 29, 2006 11:38 AM