Venezuelan president proposes food fund in Mercosur summit/ VENEZUELA PROPUSO FONDO DE EMERGENCIA ALIMENTOS

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday proposed to create an emergency regional food fund to promote agricultural development in the 35th summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). Chavez said that he is willing to give one U.S. dollar for each oil barrel that Venezuela exports if its price is over 100 dollars ( full information)/ Venezuela propuso hoy una "estrategia petroalimentaria" al Mercosur ampliado, y ofreció que por cada barril que su país exporte destine un dólar a un fondo que forme un grupo de países que se asocien para producir alimentos ( información completa)