"Mizter T" wrote in message
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BBC News story - "Mayor signs Venezuelan oil deal"
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6377867.stm

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Ken Livingstone has signed an oil deal with Venezuela - providing
cheap fuel for London's buses and giving cut price travel for those on
benefits.

....Richard Barnes, deputy leader of the London Assembly
Conservatives, attacked the deal.

"London should not be doing business with third-rate South American
dictators with an appalling human rights and democratic record."

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the Americas, and its
socialist president is the Bush administration's fiercest critic in
Latin America.

So, not ALL bad, then.

:-)

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Brian