Article: Oil debt to Venezuela soars.(Cuba)

OIL DEBT TO VENEZUELA SOARS. With little fanfare, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has become Cuba's biggest financial supporter since the Soviet Union pulled the plug on its subsidies more than a decade ago. Over the past three years, Cuba has run up a massive debt of US$752 million for oil shipped by Venezuela's state oil company, according to people close to the company, reports The Wall Street Journal (Feb. 3, 2004):

Though Venezuelan officials deny that Cuba is falling behind, people familiar with the debt say it is piling up and that the government has made little effort to collect. This makes the shipments a crucial subsidy that is helping keep the ...

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