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Op-Ed Commentary

2005

Jan-Jul 2004
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US on the spot as Iraq and Bolivia face escalation

Victory strategy in Iraq and Bolivia

Burlington News : The free market proves it works when left alone

John Hunt: Evo Morale's landslide victory Bolivian president

Jim Kouri : Bolivian thug becomes President

 

 

Kamel Abdallah al Harami/Al-Hayat : A Distinguished Year for OPEC

Unexpected developments

Veneconomy: PDVSA: Not a shadow of its former self

Jorge Castaneda: Latin America faces Chavez challenge

Who's calling the shots in Bolivia?

 

 

Washington Times : The IAEA concession on Iran

VenEconomy : They got here late, but they did their job

Washington Times : Venezuela's pitiful election

Sen. Bill Frist : Boycott of elections was right

Andres Oppenheimer : Bolivia may be next thorn in Washington's side

 

 

 

VenEconomy: Carter II?

"Bolivia is a Powderkeg"

Vice President Cheney to Caracas

Veneconomy: The money’s simply not there!

Chavez arms threaten Panama

 

Lula ducks Fox-Chavez fracas

VenEconomy: Hitting a raw nerve

VenEconomy: Oil is worthless

US creates new Munich with Iran and Chavez

US creates new Munich with Iran and Chavez

Gustavo Coronel: The U.S. Congress takes a hard look at Chavez

Cuba and Venezuela choose globalism

 

Cuba and Venezuela choose globalism

Is Chavez buying US executive branch support for Evo Morales win?

Veneconomy: “Diplomacy” Bolivarian style

Veneconomy: “Migration” Bolivarian style

" Do Venezuela and Iran know when to stop?

 

 

Russia can stop Chavez in Cuba

No Chavez F-16s in Cuba

Is there no shame in Washington?

Andres Oppenheimer : The final outcome of summit: two Americas

Chicago Tribune: A world of deceit

Veneconomy: Negotiation using arm-twisting tactics

 

Veneconomy: Negotiation using arm-twisting tactics

Jack Rafuse : Here we go again

The Daily Oklahoman : Oil-for-food scandal is outrageous

A head on collision?

The Washington Post : Venezuela's Conscience

 

Washington Post : Vice President for Torture

Dave Zweifel : Halliburton's new low in treachery

Michael Rowan: Monopoly

Rowan Scarborough : Venezuela seeks nuclear technology

Rondi Adamson : Canada doesn't have oil, Alberta does, and U.S. is our main trading partner

Star Tribune :Conserving energy: Whose job is it?

Gustavo Coronel: PDVSA issues the 2003 report to the SEC

 

Hal Lindsey: Venezuela seeking nukes?

The end of the "imperial C.E.O."

VenEconomy:Task accomplished as ordereds

VenEconomy : PDVSA’s SEC figures

Michael Rowan / No Excuses

The Miami Herald: Why Haiti isn't ready for elections

 

The Miami Herald: Well-deserved Nobel

Veneconomy: No smoke without fire

Chavez nuclear program

Caracas Chronicles: The strong oil card is a bluff

Michael Rowan: Chernobyl

Barbados Advocate Shawn Cumberbatch : 'Say no to oil deal´

 

Resource Investor/David J. DesLauriers: Why Bother Even Going Near Venezuela?

Gustavo Coronel : PDVSA management: from professionals to buccaneers

VenEconomy: No more doubts!

VenEconomy: Benefit of the doubt

REV : Inflation: A Perverse Tax

 

VenEconomy : …He’s not kidding

Michael Rowan:The enemy

Venezuela's Nuclear Program

Michael Rowan : The real story

Richard Reeves : Crisis in confidence, crisis en democracy

 

VenEconomy: The snake charmer and the deliberately blind

VenEconomy: From hellhole to the Big Apple

VenEconomy; Full throttle ahead on confiscations

VenEconomy: China is cautious

Arnaud de Borchgrave: Iran's strategy in Iraq

VenEconomy: Speak up for them so that they can speak up for you

William F. Buckley Jr. : "Over a barrel: Breaking the Middle East oil cartel"

 

VenEconomy: Oil as a propaganda tool

The Washington Times: Oil-refinery capacity

The New York Times: The man-made disaster

The Washington Post: Right move on KPMG

The Washington Times: Reserving oil reserves

Byron York: Does Pat Robertson Matter?

Who responsable in Haiti ?

Al Quds Al Arabi: “Constitutional reform in Saudi Arabia”

VenEconomy: More PDVSA fantasies

 

Michael O'Hanlon: Oil, Sunnis, and the Iraqi Constitution

Pierre Lemieux : The oil price mirage

VenEconomy: More PDVSA fantasies

VenEconomy: National destruction plan

Miami Herald: Chile rids itself of last vestiges of Pinochet's militararism

 

 

Chicago Tribune: Wanted: An exorcist in Caracas

CITGO a money making machine

Washington Times: Oil-market frenzy and the Fed

NYT/ Alan J. Kuperman: The energy bill's gift to terrorists

A lost for journalism

 

 

REV : Electoral Fiasco

Michael Rowan: The Sinkhole

VenEconomy: Now what?

VER : PDVSA and the SEC

Andrés Oppenheimer : CAFTA approval was critical

 

 

VenEconomy :Two more gems from the CNE

VenEconomy :Inverting priorities

Gustavo Coronel: Ecuadorians: Beware of Hugo Chavez!

The Washington Times / Donald Lambro : Bullish trade versus myth information

VenEconomy : Why not have your cake and eat it too?

 

VenEconomy : Utterly absurd

Oliver Campbell : PDVSA’S Consolidated Statement of Income for 2003

UPI/Richard Tomkin As : Bush pushes CAFTA

VER : Crimes Exchange Law

VenEconomy: Another bottomless barrel

VenEconomy: A new flank for the revolution

 

 

VenEconomy: Bargaining weapon?

El Universal : Assault on the Venezuelan Central Bank

Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara "elections are mockery" "Venezuela is under dictatorship"

Veneconomy: Nosedive!

VER On Line: Culture Mission or Revolution?

 

VenEconomy takes off its hat

John Hughes :From New York to London, we're all in this together

Invest Venezuela:Investment, a priority for the G-8

Gustavo Coronel : Petrocaribe: anyone really wins?

NYT/ Frank Rich: We're Not in Watergate Anymore

NYT: London Under Attack

 

NYT: London Under Attack

Fu Chengyu : Why Is America Worried?

Washington Post: Oil and Security

Veneconomy: The 4th and 5th of July in the 5th Republic

Michael Rowan:The savage dimension of mind

VenEconomy : Shopping in the Caribbean

 

 

VenEconomy : Shopping in the Caribbean

Pablo Bachelet : Oil, politics and Venezuela

Not until 2008, the oil glut

The Washington Post: Elections for Bolivia

 

The Washington Post: Elections for Bolivia

Michael Rowan: What the poor need is their own enterprise

VenEconomy : Without power and in total obscurity

WSJ: Iran's 'Democracy' : A rigged election, no reformist victory

 

Miami Herald : Bolivian leaders must resist efforts to nationalize energy resources

: Bolivia's challenge: heal divisions

VER on line: Democracy and the OAS

The Christian Science Monitor: Bolivia: Tiny Nation, Big Troubles

 

The Christian Science Monitor: Bolivia: Tiny Nation, Big Troubles

The Christian Science Monitor: That Neighborly AdmonitionAndres Oppenheimer:

U.S. proposal: great idea, bad strategy

VenEconomy: No smoke without fire

NYT/Nicholas D. Kristof : A policy of rape

 

VER: Diplomatic Brouhaha

Luis A. Pacheco:2+2=5

Michael Rowan: It's all about the price of oil

NYT / Bob Herbert : America, a symbol of . . .

Matt Crenson : Is the world running out of gas?

 

VenEconony : High growth, but what about jobs?

VER : 50 Years 1955-2005VER : Cuba–Venezuela Petroleum Axis

Veneconomy: The prisoner's dilemma

El Universal: An oil company seriously injured

 

El Universal: An oil company seriously injured

Rafael Ramirez: Venezuela ready
to defend sovereignty and fair oil prices

Gustavo Coronel: The new Venezuelan "oiligarchy"

Carlos Alberto Montaner: Chávez's trade fight

The Miami herald:At a
critical junctur
e

Veneconomy: Another onslaught

 

Veneconomy: Another onslaught

Michael Rowan: The strategy
to defeat the Wes
t

Veneconomy:How much is a person's word worth?

Veneconomy:The reasonfor the silence

NYT:The nuclear power option

VenEconomy: Lid blows off at PDVSA

 

VenEconomy: Lid blows off at PDVSA

VenEconomy: “Válvulas” confiscated

VenEconomy: The true consequences

Charlie Hardy: Condoleezza, my love

VenEconomy: From Caracas, a ship loaded with ...

 

VenEconomy: From Caracas, a ship loaded with ...

VenEconomy: Lending an ear to Bush

Business week : And you thought oil was a worry

USA Today: In South America, democracy stumbles in second act

The Washington Post : Breakdown in Ecuador


Gustavo Coronel: The Nation Magazine does Venezuela

 

Veneconomy:  The incongruities of gas

Michael Rowan: Nazism

Veneconomy:A thorn in the sideThe Christian Science Monitor/Bill Faries:
Latin leaders try to diffuse tensions

  A Venezuelan tourist package for sadomasochists

 

Washington Times : Venezuela's dangerous exports

Michael Rowan : Collapse

Veneconomy: The conqueror writes history

Veneconomy: The morning after the night before

CITGO financial engineering

 

CITGO financial engineering

Gustavo Coronel:A magnificent Exxon-Mobil work on Caracas

Gustavo Coronel: Petroleos de Venezuela: oil production and ethics are palo abajo

VenEconomy: Bolivarian delirium

Richard Lapper: US urged to give higher priority to Latin America

 

El Universal : Go to hell!

A.M. Mora y Leon: An avalanche of arrests in Venezuela

A.M Mora y Leon: Chavez's Curacao madness

NYT: The state of Iraq: An update

Oliver L. Campbell : Is PDVSA following the right strategy?

 

VenEconomy: Blacker than ever, but with more money

Andrew McKillop: The Opec overcapacity myth

Editorial: A reminder to Minister Ramirez
on the US double taxation treaty

El Universal : The Judicial Revolution

Carlos Alberto Montaner: Getting rid of tyrants

Trinidad-Venezuela: Unitising cross-border reserves

WP `s Jackson Diehl: Trouble In Our Back Yard

Financial Times: Chávez slips into demagogy again

The Washington Post: Venezuela's 'Revolution'

The Venezuelan Petroleum Industry

Veneconomy: Employment agreement at PDVSA

Veneconomy: Many a slip twixt cup and lip

Miami Herald Our Opinion Robert B. Zoellick a good choice for State Department

Michael Rowan : Corruption

 

William Safire: A Columnist's Farewell 'Never Retire'

Veneconomy: With the bull by the horns?

Veneconomy: It costs nothing to be polite

NewsMax: Chavez shutting out U.S. oil co.’s

Veneconomy: Two items worth noting

Veneconomy: The perfect finishing touch


Financial Times: Chávez slips into demagogy again

The Washington Post: Venezuela's 'Revolution'

The Venezuelan Petroleum Industry

Veneconomy: Employment agreement at PDVSA

Veneconomy: Many a slip twixt cup and lip

Miami Herald Our Opinion Robert B. Zoellick a good choice for State Department

Michael Rowan : Corruption

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