00730nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000024500580001726000090007550000070008452005220009158300190061320260716043307.0  aPetroleum : the basis for Latin American integration.  c1990  aDC  aPoints out that the Region's experience of a clear social and economic setback in the last decade should be used as a stepping stone to solutions to the problem of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Asserts that strengthened regional cooperation is a way to reinforce the area's economies through mutual complementation and the search for common economic and social interests, and that petroleum activities offer excellent opportunities for cooperation - to the economic benefit of the parties involved.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR