Venezuela playing economic role in Bolivia
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved to expand his oil-rich country’s influence in Bolivia with a set of accords Friday to secure Venezuela’s role in the impoverished Andean nation’s recently nationalized energy industry. Chavez and fellow leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales were also set create a joint mining company and a fertilizer company, and Venezuela is pledging more university scholarships, asphalt to pave Bolivian roads, credit for businesses and trees for reforestation. Full Story