LATIN AMERICA: A worker walks along Sao Tome ethanol distillery in Parana, Brazil, in March 2006. Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela together account for almost 70 percent of all energy demand in Latin America, according to the IEA. The agency projects the region to fall back to eight place in terms of energy consumers by 2015, from seventh place in 2007.
PHOTO: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
