CARACAS, Tuesday August 19, 2008 | Update
According to Venezuelan Finance minister, Alí Rodríguez
Araque, the recently nationalized Venezuelan division of Mexican
cement maker Cemex is worth less than USD 400 million, as
quoted by Reuters.
Rodríguez Araque was referring to compensation the Mexican
firm could receive for its assets in the country.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."