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2008-05-23 Caribbean-Latin America

analysis of food shortage in Mexico and Haiti - short story - not gashol problem

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Posted by 3dc 2008-05-23 14:21|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OPEC countries had not coughed up much for the UN World Food Program until ~~they were publically humiliated)~~ recently.
The Saudi contribution came two weeks after FOX revealed, based on WFP donor records, that Saudi Arabia had given nothing at all to the food agency this year, despite spiraling oil prices that had brought on the food crisis.

All of OPEC the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had collectively given just $1.5 million, or about 1 minute and 10 seconds worth of OPEC's 2007 oil revenues, FOX disclosed.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-23 16:02|| 2008-05-23 16:02|| Front Page Top

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