>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hugo-chavez-passionate-but-polarizing-venezuelan-president-dead-at-58/2013/03/05/42525790-afdd-11e0-90e1-c12867691ae6_print.html
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>>Very surprising news. He was only 58. I was passing by a TV tuned to Fox News and when I saw the headline, walking along and not paying too much attention, at first I thought it was Raul Castro.
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>>He sure wasn't any friend of the U.S. The initial analysis I saw from a talking head (John Bolton) was that his presumptive successor isn't much different. In a way it's too bad Venezuela has so much oil because it forces us to deal with them in some way, like the hostile Arab nations.
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>Deal as in "ask for the price and threaten with buying it elsewhere if too expensive"?

Or in loan or guarantee loans to the point where you are beholden somehow ? Where does Venezuela get its loans and where does the IDB get its money and backers?
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/109498.pdf

None of that is included in direct foreign aid which is reported separately for those countries that get it.