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
Michael
Rowan: Values in Venezuela
WSJ: The U.N.'s Tipping Point The real reformer is John Bolton, not Kofi Annan
Miami Herald : Bolivian leaders must resist efforts to nationalize energy resources
CSM/Bill
Faries : 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 juncture
Veneconomy: Another onslaught
Veneconomy: Another onslaught
Michael Rowan: The strategy
to defeat the West
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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