Venezuela Accessing China market via Iran

[poe]

Venezuela accessing China market via Iran

In recent weeks Venezuela has begun selling crude and fuel oil to China, in some cases, according to people familiar with the deals, at a discount price to offset shipping costs and render the trade feasible.

www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=29287&NewsKind=Business%20%26%20Economy


Will Chavez's Oil Still Flow?

Whether or not Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is the next Fidel Castro, the leftist firebrand has mastered the Cuban's art of pushing the U.S.'s buttons--including the ones on our gas pumps. Venezuela is the U.S.'s fourth-largest oil supplier (15% of U.S. imports), a nearby and reliable source that few in Washington want to alienate. But the visit to Caracas last week by Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong was the latest reminder that Chávez, a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy, wants to cut Venezuela's dependence on the U.S. market and start exporting to his oil-thirsty ideological ally, China. Talks are under way to build pipelines to pump Venezuelan crude to Pacific ports in Colombia and Panama for that very purpose.

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1022611,00.html

LONDON, Feb 1 (IranMania) - Venezuela has enrolled Iran to help it accelerate a strategy to steer its oil exports to China and away from its traditional market of the US, Financial Times said.

A team of traders from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, is to be trained in London by Iranian advisers on how best to place oil in Asian markets, according to industry sources.

[knowbody0]

1. chaves is really interesting

i do not see castro there, and i like the way he is adjusting the land rights stolen by the elite. also the poor have a voice with him.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Something that

we don't have here. :( He at least let's them speak and everything. Here the poor, at least with BushCo, don't matter at all.

[Stop_the_War]

3. Viva Hugo Chavez!

[davidwparker]

4. Oh, Oh. Here comes yet another CIA coup attempt. Maybe

freedom will be on the march down there too. That's got to be were the WMD went. Maybe bin Laden is opening a field office down there that needs to be taken out.

[w4rma]

5. He needs to be careful. China is one of the most totalitarian states in

the world. It is also Chavez's ideological opposite. China's government is closer to Neo-con ideology than any other ideology I've seen.

He needs to be careful about associating himself with China, but he also needs to forment a protective alliance with them, and the EU and other countries with militaries and economic power over U.S. debt, to protect his country from the crazy neo-cons running ours.

This is a very very tough tightrope to walk, but it's important that he does it and does it well.