Pacaraima Journal: Gas Smugglers Dodge the Law in Brazil and Venezuela
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The price disparity for gas between Brazil and Venezuela has generated a booming contraband trade that is spurring fuel traffickers to use ingenious efforts at evasion.
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Three former El Paso Corp natural gas traders were convicted on Thursday of reporting false deals to manipulate gas prices from 2000 to 2002.
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It could be Miami or New York, Sydney, Toronto, Madrid or even Kuwait. Almost any destination is acceptable to a growing number of Venezuelans who want to emigrate because they see little future for themselves ...
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Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is more worried about playing rank outsiders Venezuela than the likes of Germany or Argentina.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's state oil company said Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips had refused to sign deals Tuesday that would allow them keep pumping oil under tougher terms in the South American country.
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Border Patrol efforts to fight back against smugglers who pelt them with rocks and ball bearings over the border fence are reported to be taking a toll on innocent local residents, raising many a hackle.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressional  probe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chief  and an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement in  suspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smuggling  and other crimes.
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If approved, the law would prohibit the importation of fuels derived from crops grown on certain kinds of land â including forests, wetlands or grasslands.
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Exxon Mobil has won a British court order freezing up to $12 billion of worldwide assets belonging to the Venezuelan national oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, in a dispute over President Hugo ChÃÂ¿vez's efforts to seize control of oil ventures in his country.
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Hugo Chavez's arms build-up in Venezuela is goading the Brazilians into upgrading their own military. Is this good for the region?
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, vans and buses full of aspiring models brake to a stop here in front of the unmarked offices of the Daphne Agency. Coming from small towns scattered across the Brazilian countryside, the hopefuls have spent hours on the road, often...
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- JesÃÂºs Vivas drives a 26-year-old clunker with rusted fenders, ripped upholstery and a tattered carpet. With a wheeze, a plume of smoke and a walrus-like roar, the wreck he calls a taxi accelerates down congested streets. About the only thing that works well is a new radio,...
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Holland has denied Guyana access to its archives on the Suriname border issue and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will have to make a ruling on this issue, a source close to ...
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Ecuadorean computer technician Agustina Herrera paid people smugglers $14,000 to slip into the United States illegally two years ago, swimming the Rio Grande, tramping through swamps and nearly dying from snake bites.
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Venezuela dispatched extra troops as part of an effort to tighten security along its border with neighboring Colombia, but officials on Monday denied that the move was linked to a heated dispute over the capture of a rebel leader in Caracas by bounty hunters paid by Colombia.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian federal agents arrested 75 state police troopers on Friday for links with organized crime in Rio de Janeiro state's high-profile bid to get rid of corrupt cops.