And with Exxon Mobil right in the middle of it, again!

Pretty much all of them are backing Guyana, even though they all enjoyed sucking off that Venezuelan oil teat. Guess that's what happens when you can't keep on giving other nations free oil. Everybody wants something in return.

started LONG before Hugo Chavez was elected, as the rest of the LA forum knows.

From any search, the following information will be available. This one already posted early this year in this forum:

From www.LatinPetroleum.com

Top Petroleum News
Mexico and Venezuela renew San Jose Accord
By EFE
Aug 4, 2004, 17:55

Mexico and Venezuela renewed the San Jose Accord whereby the two oil producing nations supply a total of 160,000 barrels a day of crude to 11 Central American and Caribbean nations at discount prices.

The document was signed simultaneously in Mexico and Venezuela by Presidents Vicente Fox and Hugo Chavez, according to a joint communique. The San Jose Accord came into existence on Aug. 3, 1980, and it has never been suspended.

The countries that benefit from the special crude prices are Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic, the communique noted. The pact also establishes "a cooperation mechanism to promote the economic and social development of the beneficiary nations."

The cooperation accord finances social-economic development projects in the participating nations, as well as trade of goods and services by Mexican and Venezuelan firms. Mexico and Venezuela each provide half of the total 160,000 barrels per day of the crude sold at discount prices.

2 LATIN NATIONS ACT TO CURB OIL FOR BELLIGERENTS
By RICHARD J. MEISLIN , Special to the New York Times
Published: August 4, 1984

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3— Mexico and Venezuela said today they would halt delivery of discount- priced oil to any Central American and Caribbean countries ''that initiate warlike actions'' against others in the region. The announcement by the two nations said they were adopting the policy to provide incentive for ''preservation of peace'' as well as for strengthening ''democratic and social development.'' A Foreign Ministry spokesman here said the condition for further oil deliveries would not be retroactive. It will be up to Mexico and Venezuela, he said, to determine whether a country should be put under sanction.

Addition to 4-Year-Old Pact

The condition was a new feature in the four-year-old San Jose pact, which is renewed annually. Under the San Jose agreement, Mexico and Venezuela provide generous credit terms for oil to 10 Central American and Caribbean countries. The pact gave no indication which countries might be put under sanction for ''warlike actions.'' El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica, along with the United States, have accused Nicaragua of backing actions against the three Central American countries. Nicaragua has accused Honduras of supporting rebels seeking to topple its Government.

Several Countries Benefit

All these countries benefit from the San Jose accord, as do the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Belize, Guatemala, Jamaica and Panama. The pact, which takes its name from the Costa Rica capital where it was signed, provides oil to participating countries for a payment of 80 percent of market rates. The remaining 20 percent can be paid back over a period of five years at an interest rate of 8 percent or, if it is to be used for development programs, over 20 years at a rate of 6 percent. Under the new pact, the program would be authorized to ship 130,000 barrels of oil a day, down from 160,000 under the 1983-84 agreement.

Contadora Group's Aims Cited

Mexico and Venezuela said sanctions against aggressive actions would be an effort to ''take every effort necessary for the complete fulfillment of the Contadora Group.''

Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela - the members of the Contadora Group, named for the island where they met - have been trying for more than 18 months to negotiate an agreement among the Central American countries, a key element of which would commit them to refrain from directly or indirectly backing attacks on neighboring countries. Mexico and Venezuela did not specify how a decision to apply sanctions would be made, saying only that they would ''suspend application of this program to participating countries that initiate warlike actions against other states of the area, in violation of the Charter of the United Nations.'' They also did not say whether a country found to have committed ''warlike actions'' would lose its Mexican and Venezuelan oil supplies entirely or only the credit subsidies.

U.S. Praise Awkward for Mexico

The changes come at a time when United States officials have been praising Mexico - to the embarrassment of its officials - for having moderated its support of leftist groups in Central America. The Government of Mexico denies any substantive change in its foreign policy.

Are tou saying that all these Caribbean nations backing Guyana are part of some U.S.-backed conspiracy to topple Venezuela despite how generous the Chavista regime has been to them? Is that what you're implying?

By the way, nice use of another well-known paid-for shill of the Venezuelan government. I thought we established already that Eva Golinger is just another propaganda-spewing entity along with Absence of Logic, Telesur, and VenezuelaAnalysis, and that hack of an "economist" Mark Weisbrot