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A12 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 17 June 2017

Brazilian sale of tear gas angers Venezuela opposition

crackdown on protests, non-deadly products to
to block delivery of the Venezuela.
gas. So far they haven’t “We don’t make value
received a response. judgments about the
“People are dying of policies adopted by our
hunger. The last thing clients,” Condor said.
Venezuela needs is to “But we understand that
buy riot-control prod- suspending the supply
ucts,” said Eudoro Gon- of equipment such as
zalez, a deputy law- tear gas, pepper spray
maker for the Justice and rubber bullets could
First party. “The Brazilian have dramatic con-
government should ad- sequences because it
here to its foreign policy would leave security
fundamentals of respect forces with no other al-
for human rights.” ternative than to use fire-
More than 70 people arms.”
have been killed and Brazilian President Michel
1,300 injured in more Temer has been among
than two months of pro- Maduro’s harshest crit-

An anti-government demonstrator carries a Venezuelan flag as he walks in the midst of a cloud of tests seeking Maduro’s ics and last year led an
tear gas during protests in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 14, 2017. A Brazilian company removal. A few of those effort to expel Venezu-
acknowledged on Friday that it is supplying Venezuela’s security forces with large amounts of tear killed have died as the ela’s government from
gas to control anti-government protests — prompting outrage from the Venezuelan opposition. result of injuries from tear the Mercosur trade bloc.
(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) gas canisters fired onto Maduro in turn has called
By JOSHUA GOODMAN protests — prompting was a document show- protesters at close range Temer, who took over
Associated Press outrage from the Ven- ing the armed forces or from excessive expo- from the impeached Dil-
CARACAS, Venezuela ezuelan opposition. had purchased almost sure to the toxic fumes. ma Rousseff, a “political
(AP) — A Brazilian com- Rio de Janeiro-based 78,000 tear gas canisters Condor, in its statement, assassin.”
pany acknowledged Condor Non-Lethal in April. said that since 2012 it Calls and emails to the
on Friday that it is sup- Technologies confirmed Opponents of President has faced fewer restric- Brazilian presidency,
plying Venezuela’s se- that it is fulfilling two con- Nicolas Maduro say tions on exporting to se- foreign ministry and de-
curity forces with large tracts in Venezuela after they’ve asked Brazil’s curity forces around the fense ministry seeking
amounts of tear gas to opposition leaders pre- government, which has world and that there is comment were not im-
control anti-government sented what they said been highly critical of the no embargo on sales of mediately returned.q
Guyana allows ExxonMobil, partners to start drilling for oil

By BERT WILKINSON Oil extraction is expected has come up dry, a discov- Venezuela, which has re- line. The government also
Associated Press to start in 2020 at an initial ery that has attracted doz- jected planned develop- has said it would invest in
GEORGETOWN, Guyana rate of 100,000 barrels per ens of other oil companies ment of oil fields because its military and build a 350-
(AP) — The South American day, Trotman said. Exxon- to Guyana. they are allegedly in waters mile (565-kilometer) jungle
country of Guyana has is- Mobil will obtain a royalty London-based Tullow Oil claimed by both countries. road from the capital of
sued its first oil and gas li- of 2 percent on gross earn- and Toronto-based Eco The United Nations will send Georgetown to northeast-
cense to ExxonMobil, which ings and 50 percent of prof- (Atlantic) Oil & Gas said the matter to the World ern Brazil, opening up Guy-
has said it made “signifi- its, while the government of this month that they will Court by year’s end if the ana’s rugged, mineral-rich
cant” oil discoveries off the Guyana has estimated it start surveying concessions two countries cannot re- interior.
Atlantic coast. could receive up to $5 bil- by late June and expect solve their dispute. Guyana currently relies on
Resources Minister Raphael lion a year in revenue. to drill a first well in 2018. The U.S. Geological Survey products like gold, rice sug-
Trotman said late Thursday The oil will be stored in a Several other companies had long estimated that ar, bauxite and timber.
that the company and its massive floating platform including Spanish-owned offshore Guyana was rich To prepare for a poten-
partners, Hess Guyana Ex- under construction since Repsol and Mid Atlantic Oil in gas and oil, and the tiny tial surge in oil production,
ploration Ltd. and CNOOC the field is more than 100 and Gas also are exploring country of 750,000 people Guyana is updating legis-
Nexen, also received an miles (160 kilometers) off- the area. hopes to receive enough lation to address potential
environmental permit and shore. ExxonMobil’s discovery also of a windfall to provide spills and other issues and
can now drill in an area be- ExxonMobil has drilled more reignited a decades-old free education and supply has sent professionals over-
lieved to contain at least than half a dozen wells border dispute between households with free cook- seas to qualify as petroleum
two billion barrels of oil. since 2015 and only one Guyana and neighboring ing gas and cheap gaso- attorneys and engineers. q