We read that oil production is in “free fall” in “crisis-hit Venezuela” (Opec cuts – Oil cartel split amid pressure to raise supplies, 22 June). This is not due to maladministration by the Maduro government but because the US is rapidly winding down its Venezuelan oil imports for political reasons. The Trump administration is particularly averse to Venezuela’s attempt to spread the benefits of its primary resource among Venezuelans. The pressure to increase production elsewhere is to help plug the gap in the global supply – made wider by sanctions imposed on Iran.
Kevin Bannon
London
• Thank you for the heart-breaking supplement (20 June) listing deaths of refugees. It has been placed on the altar of St Roque’s Chapel in St Paul’s episcopal cathedral in Dundee.
Margaret Geyer
Tayport, Fife
• Nina Simone may not have put “more than a dent in the lower end of the pop charts” in America (Report, 20 June), but she had three top five singles in the UK: Ain’t Got No – I Got Life (1968), To Love Somebody (1969) and the reissue of My Baby Just Cares For Me (1985).
Graham Larkbey
London
• 1980. Perth. Morris Minor van (Letters, 22 June). Radio. Wolves score to win League Cup. I raise my arms in celebration. Front suspension collapses. Scrapman turns van upside down. Fits used parts. £25. Continue on skiing holiday.
John Banks
Ledbury, Herefordshire
• I have only one word to say to those Morris Minor owners whose front wheels fell off – trunnions.
John Loader
Leyburn, North Yorkshire
• What irony in a shortage of carbon dioxide during global warming (Report, 20 June)?
Dennis Hawkins
Leominster, Herefordshire
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