Formation and influence on the world economy History The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent‚ intergovernmental Organization‚ created at the Baghdad Conference on September 14 th‚ 1960‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Iran‚ Iraq‚ Venezuela and Kuwait. OPEC has since expanded to include other members: Qatar in 1961‚ Libya in 1962‚ the United Arab Emirates in 1967‚ Algeria in 1969‚ Nigeria in 1971‚ Ecuador in 1973‚ and recently Angola in 2007 making a total membership of 12. For the
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Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Cultural Awareness Outline Thesis: culture is dynamic and can be seen from the interaction of many things such as physical features‚ history‚ activities and developments. It is also represented in the way people live and the elements that are found in the day to day interaction such as language‚ music‚ dressing among others. I. The definition of culture and its key characteristics proves the dynamic nature of culture. A
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live in the border area between Venezuela and Brazil. Chagnon lived and studied with the Yąnomamö from the mid-1960s to the 1990s. I plan to describe the physical environment of the Yąnomamö society‚ their subsistence strategies‚ the way that they communicate‚ their religion‚ and their gender and age roles. To start off‚ I will discuss their physical setting‚ climate and environment. They live in 200-250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. The village where
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Venezuelan revolutionary who helped Latin America obtain its independence from the Spanish Empire. The political and military leader is today considered to be one of the most significant in the Americas’ history. He played a key role in many countries: Venezuela‚ Colombia‚ Panama‚ Ecuador‚ Peru and Bolivia. Bolivar began his military career by accessing the military academy of the Milicias de Vergauas. In 1805‚ he climbed the Monte Sacro in Rome and made the oath to not give up on his mission to break from
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The General and His Labyrinth Memorialized as one of South America’s greatest liberators‚ General Simon Bolivar led the wars to independence for Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Panama‚ and Venezuela. With the strength of passion and heartbreak of true love‚ Bolivar succeeded as a liberator‚ but fell short in his ultimate dream to unify his beloved continent. In his fictional novel‚ "The General and His Labyrinth"‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates the General’s two year journey down the Magdalena
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GlobalFirepower.com: Strength in Numbers History and Warfare If history has shown the observer one thing‚ it is that war follows man like a shadow. According to one source‚ documented history has recorded an estimated 300 years of known peace on our planet - leaving thousands of years open to conflicts of varying degrees. Interestingly enough‚ this mostly unknown fact forces us to recognize that there has been some source of conflict - be it religious‚ ethnic‚ territorial or otherwise - between
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The interactions between countries were coined as diplomacy and the sets of principles that dictated one country’s interaction with others were coined as foreign policies. The U.S. obeyed the isolationist policy set by Washington during his administrative office until after the civil war with the growing need for new markets to sell their industrial products. The foreign policy developed by this need would eventually prove to be bad for the world as it solely wanted to expand American power for land
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Ecuador Ecuador is a beautiful and small country located in South America‚ between Colombia and Peru. Its total territory is of 256‚370 sq. kilometers and has a total population of about 14 million of inhabitants. Ecuador has a democratic government. Its President is Rafael Correa who was constitutionally elected by popular vote on 2006. Ecuador is a country with 38.3% of the population below the poverty line (2006). The era of political violence in Ecuador has been around ever since it was
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simulation there were three groups or teams. Each team represented a South American country. For this exercise the country of Brazil‚ wanting more action and less declaration of political will‚ convened a working group consisting of three countries: Venezuela‚ Peru and Colombia. The sole purpose of generating these countries together was to generate a solution to water quality concerns. Cooperation was a key element within this negotiation‚ as working together to build a single water treatment plant
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allocated NOK 43.3 billion of its funds strategically to triple their foreign production of oil and gas by 2007. However they had to manage the inherent risk to their reputation the investment was allocated for politically sensitive countries like Venezuela‚ Angola‚ Algeria‚ Azerbaijan and Iran‚ all which were known for corruption‚ bribery and human rights violations. Statoil’s largest strategic target was Iran‚ who held 9% of the worlds known oil reserves and 15% of its natural gas deposits. Statoil’s
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