VENEZUELA WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oi l imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partn er and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know® series , Miguel Tinker Salas -- a native of Venezuela who has written extensively about the country -- takes a broadly chronological approa ch that ...[Llegir més]