Venezuela suspends oil exports to Cuba
AFP. 12 April 2002. Venezuela suspends oil exports to Cuba.
CARACAS -- Venezuela will suspend oil exports to Cuba, directors of the
state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela oil company announced Friday, just
hours after the ouster of Havana's ally, Hugo Chavez, from the
presidency.
"Not a single barrel of oil for Cuba," said Edgar Paredes, a director of
the giant oil company, known as PDVSA.
Venezuela had been selling about 53,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba at
a discounted price under an arrangement signed in 2000 between Chavez
and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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