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| | Cuba Libre? - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | It is there that Cuba plans to drill for oil, after the discovery of highly promising oil and gas reserves in the North Cuba Basin in 2004. |
 | | Chinese involvement in Cuba's oil industry is the latest aspect of a growing commercial relationship that is helping transform Cuba's economic prospects: China is now Cuba's second-largest trading partner, after Venezuela, and accounts for some 10% of the island's trade ($755 million in bilateral trade in 2005, up from $551 million the previous year). |
 | | Cuba's leading trade partner, Venezuela, led by Washington's other bete noir in the region, President Hugo Chavez, now supplies two-thirds of Cuba's oil, at below world market prices. |
| www.forbes.com /2006/08/01/castro-cuba-oil_cx_pm_0802notes.html?partner=yahootix (810 words) |
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