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Unit 4 Individual Project                                                                                                           1

Ayesha Rashid
Unit 4 Individual Project
Instructor: Amita Sood
American InterContinental University
BUS230-1005B-36 International Business
01/30/2011

Unit 4 Individual Project                                                                                                         2
Venezuelan Business Opportunities

The inclusion of Venezuela comes one month after its president, Hugo Chávez, brought a shovel
To the Third Summit of the Americas at Mar del Plata, Argentina, to symbolically bury the U.S
Proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Chávez was joined by the representatives of
Mercosur and Cuba in a vote that defeated this attempt to extend imperialist trade agreements to
The whole Western Hemisphere, The U.S. and Canada, with Mexico as their lap dog in NAFTA,
Have used trade agreements to impoverish the producing countries’ working people while
Enriching the importing countries’ transnational corporations: The defeat of the FTAA and
Venezuela’s acquiring full-member status in Mercosur are due in part to the success of the
Bolivarian Revolution and “to a large part, [to Brazilian] President Lula Da Silva,” said President
Chávez to a TeleSur correspondent in Montevideo, “because he played a key role for us to be
Included” Meanwhile, Washington continues to discredit itself with every unilateral and
Undemocratic attempt it makes to alienate Venezuela and overthrow its popularly elected leader.
The neoliberal policies it has imposed on Latin America have undermined attempts to eradicate
Poverty, illiteracy, bigotry and racism in the area, in a giant step for the region, Argentina,
Brazil and Venezuela have signed an agreement to complete a gigantic gas-petroleum pipeline
Within five years. This agreement, based on cooperation and integration of the region instead of
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