Castro makes surprise visit to Venezuela for Petrocaribe launch

Castro makes surprise visit to Venezuela for Petrocaribe launch
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro made a surprise arrival here Tuesday to attend the launch of Petrocaribe, his Venezuelan ally President Hugo Chavez's new regional oil diplomacy vehicle.

Chavez had said Cuba would be represented by Vice President Carlos Lage at the launch on Wednesday. But local television showed Castro embracing host Chavez, his only regional ally, warmly on the tarmac in Puerto la Cruz, a Caribbean resort and port city east of here.

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Also due at the Petrocaribe launch and energy summit were Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, and official delegations from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Petrocaribe is just one imitative of Venezuela -- OPEC's lone Latin American member -- with a production quota of 3.1 million barrels a day. It has also proposed creation of Petrosur and Petroamerica, supranational oil groups to ensure regional supply self-sufficiency.

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I'm sure that Bu$hco is NOT happy about the Petrocaribe launch.
God forbid that any South American or Caribbean country should be energy self-suffcient. :sarcasm:

We in the Caribbean are very happy. All our utility prices keep going up because of oil price increases and we certainly didn't invade anywhere.

I'm curious. What is the current price of regular gas there in Jamaica?

edit: I certainly don't care that Bu$hco is unhappy about this development.

J$45.60 for Unleaded 87
J$47.40 for Unleaded 90 (Premium)
US$1.00 = J$61.30

A whole lot of money. I spend J$1500 for a fill up but unless I go out of the city, it lasts for close to three weeks in my Corolla.

coming soon?