Chavez suggests oil barter plan
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offers neighbouring states the option to pay for oil with local produce.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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The world&#39;s oil producers don&#39;t have much capacity to increase output, which should keep prices high throughout 2005, Venezuela&#39;s oil minister said Thursday.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met on Friday with a dozen leaders of Caribbean and Central American nations he is supplying with cheap oil that has bolstered his regional influence.
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World oil prices should remain next year around current levels and OPEC's existing price target band should be raised because it has failed to reflect the market, Venezuela's energy minister said on Sunday.
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December 25, 2004âPresident Chavez said that Venezuela will offer China greater access to Venezuelan resources, such as oil, natural gas, and related products, in an effort to reduce Venezuelan dependency on the US market.
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London's socialist mayor signed an agreement Tuesday with Venezuela's state-owned oil company to provide discounted oil for the city's iconic red buses, praising the idea as the brainstorm of the country's leftist leader, Hugo Chavez.
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Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran, the South American county's energy minister said in comments published Tuesday, a week after the Islamic country imposed a fuel rationing program that has sparked violence.
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Some oil majors have rejected  Venezuela&#39;s terms for the takeover of their multi-billion  dollar projects and can leave the OPEC nation, President Hugo  Chavez said on Friday, days before a deadline for them to  strike nationalization deals.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent Nicaragua a shipment of cut-price diesel fuel on Saturday in a demonstration of his support for Nicaragua's leftist opposition leader, Daniel Ortega, before a November 5 presidential election.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered on Wednesday to send aircraft to pick up three hostages held by Colombia's leftist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his nation's oil wealth Â not Fidel Castro Â will likely be the star attraction Friday as Caribbean leaders gather in Cuba for a regional oil summit.
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The United States should build on its mutually reliant energy ties with oil supplier Venezuela and seek better cooperation with President Hugo Chavez to fight terrorism and drug-trafficking, three U.S. senators said on Monday.
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A top U.S. diplomat warned Friday that Venezuela cannot afford to drive away the major oil companies affected by President Hugo Chavez's decision to takeover the nation's most promising oil-producing operations.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has offered assistance and oil benefits to much of the Caribbean, will meet with Haitian President Rene Preval to discuss providing aid to the impoverished country, Preval's office said Friday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday the price of oil should not fall below $60 a barrel, two days after the OPEC country cut its production to stem price declines.
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said today in Moscow that 50 US dollars per barrel of oil is âan acceptable priceâ adding that OPEC (Oil Petroleum Exporting Countries) must make sure the price does not drop below 30 US dollars.