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Costa Rica Considers Joining Chávez’s Oil Group

A Costa Rican government delegation will travel to the coastal city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, this weekend to participate in Sunday’s Petrocaribe summit and analyze the possibility of joining the group.

An arrangment launched in 2005 by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the presidents of several Caribbean island states, Petrocaribe provides Caribbean countries with Venezuelan oil under preferable payment conditions. It currently has 17 members.

Given record-high oil prices and the resulting increase in Costa Rica’s oil import bill, the Costa Rican government has decided to explore the possibility of joining Petrocaribe to benefit from the short- and long-term financing and deferred payment options the initiative offers.

Petrocaribe allows its members to pay half the price of the oil they buy from Venezuela within 90 days of the purchase and the remainder within 25 years at an interest rate of 1 percent a year.

The Costa Rican delegation will be headed by Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles, Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno, and José León Desanti, president of the Costa Rican National Oil Refinery.

The Costa Rican government has in recent months been analyzing various alternatives to reduce the country’s oil import bill, which last year totaled $2.8 billion.

 

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