Under President Chavez's Petrocaribe scheme, several countries, including Cuba and Nicaragua, benefit from access to cheap Venezuelan oil at preferential rates.
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By generously giving away oil to companies such as PetroCaribe and many nations represented in the OAS, Chavez has brought them around to his revolutionary cause.
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The first step towards the Bolivarian dream had been Petrocaribe - a scheme to provide cheap oil to the countries of Central America and the Caribbean that depend on imports.