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Op-Ed Commentary 2007

Previous editorials 06

Previous editorials 05

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VenEconomy: “ Loma de Níquel” destroyed

Christopher Hitchens: Identity Crisis

Newsweek: Clouds over the state Hugo built

VenEconomy : A lamb in wolf’s clothing

Scott Sullivan: Huckabee is Mao

Gustavo Coronel : In his obsession for notoriety Chavez leaves no Stone
unturned

Scott Sullivan: Putin must restrain Fidel Castro

Signonsandiego: Hugo Chavez urges Latinos to buy from Citgo. Really

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Bolivian Breakup?

Veneconomy: Venezuela is clamoring for justice and freedom

 

Scott Sullivan: Turkey must escalate| in Northern Iraq

Gustavo Coronel: PDVSA to finance Chavez’s madness

Scott Sullivan: Argentina will protect Eastern Bolivia

Oliver L Campbell: The outbreak of renewables on the energy scene

Gustavo Coronel : CSIS on Venezuelan social issues

 

Veneconomy: What part of “No” did Chávez not understand?

Veneconomy: What people want is democracy

The New York Times: Tale of Two Strongmen

PW View: Congratulations to Venezuela

Veneconomy:It is necessary to vote No!

 

Veneconomy:It is necessary to vote No!

Gustavo Coronel and Pedro M. Burelli: Reuters' five "facts" about Chavez

Veneconomy: NO to him passing over into Colombia… for now?

Veneconomy: Another lost opportunity!

Gustavo Coronel: The deans demand the nullity of the reform before the Supreme
Tribunal

Scott Sullivan: Iran will lose in Iraq and Lebanon

 

 

Monica Hesse: Turkey pardons, the stuffing of historic legend

Oliver L Campbell: Brazil’s new and notable oil discovery

Veneconomy: On the brink of a crisis

Oliver L Campbell: Will PDVSA make further divestments?

Scott Sullivan: Bush advances PKK, Al-Qaeda, and Iran

 

Financial Post: Venezuela leaves investors krying

Scott Sullivan: Barzani and Morales imitate Che Guevara

VenEconomy: Think ill, and you’ll be right!

Energy Tribune: Pemex oil reforms

Gustavo Coronel: A memo to Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador

Houston Cronicle: President Chavez betraying Venezuela's democracy

VenEconomy: The destruction of PDVSA

 

Gustavo Coronel: If Rafael Ramirez says it….. is most probably baloney

Scott Sullivan: Bush chooses PKK over Turkey

VenEconomy: The General speaks out

Scott Sullivan: Barzani betrays Bush to Iran

Scott Sullivan: Erdogan-Bush plan in Iraq

 

 

Michael L. Ross : Myanmar, the latest petro bully

Global Insight: Shell looks to broaden downstream position in China

Scott Sullivan: Turkey must take Kirkuk

Scott Sullivan: Turkey must take Kirkuk

VenEconomy: Con game

VenEconomy: When there is no law

 

Michael Rowan : The gathering storm

Scott Sullivan: Bush and Putin must suppress the PKK *

VenEconomy How’s the “Fund of the| South” going to operate?

Scott Sullivan Questions for Kurdish separatists

Veneconomy: Not reflected anywhere, not even in China!

Galina Ivanova: Russia will defend its oil

Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Hope and Reform

Scott Sullivan : Richardson plan will crush PKK and IRGC

NYT: Iraqi oil spoils

Scott Sullivan : Bush and Pelosi boost Richardson plan

Gustavo Coronel: I challenge Rafael Ramirez to a debate on PDVSA

 

 

VenEconomy: The con trick

Scott Sullivan : Richardson plan brings Iran’s demise

Scott Sullivan : Clinton Must Endorse Richardson Plan/Odom

Scott Sullivan : Iran Faces Isolation

Scott Sullivan: Richardson will defeat Iran in Iraq

 

Gustavo Coronel: I challenge Rafael Ramirez to a debate on PDVSA

Scott Sullivan: Allies will block Bush retreat on Iran

VenEconomy: A good deal, but for whom?

VenEconomy: Three indicators continue their downward trend

Oliver L Campbell: PDVSA: Why are the accounts no longer published in full?

Oliver L Campbell: ExxonMobil Compensation- -Reimbursement or Indemnity?

VenEconomy: Empty promises

Scott Sullivan: Bush appeases Iran

PW point of view: Barzani, provoking

 

Susan Kaufman : Lessons from Petrobras

Oliver L Campbell: PDVSA’S refineries abroad are part of an integrated operation

Bernardo Alvarez : PDVSA’s vision for social development

VenEconomy: Taxes for socialism

VenEconomy: The party’s nearly over

 

Oliver L Campbell: PDVSA’S Financial Results for 2006

Global Insight Perspective: Crude hits new record high as OPEC agrees to increase output by 500,000 b/d

Global Insight Perspective: Is OPEC preparing to spring a surprise?

VenEconomy: Playing with fire?

VenEconomy: Digging the grave even deeper

 

 

VenEconomy: The grave has been dug

Scott Sullivan: Bush confusion on Iraq and Iran

VenEconomy: The Calvary of the upgraders

Gustavo Coronel: A possible political scenario for Latin America, 2007-2012

Gustavo Coronel: Petrobras and PDVSA: The odd couple

USA Today: Al-Maliki under fire

VenEconomy: Where is everybody?

Scott Sullivan: Ahmadinejad and Chavez are dead

VenEconomy: The nitty-gritty of the amendments

VenEconomy: Two pearls from the “unconstitutional” Constitution

 

The New York Times: Mr. Chávez's power grab

 

VenEconomy: If it were not so tragic…

Oliver L Campbell: US Congress and its clash with OPEC and the majors

Our View: Extend US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran

Bill Weinberg's plagiarism

Saab Lofton : Presidente-for-Life?

Global Insight: Latin America: The international reach of state oil companies in Latin America

Scott Sullivan: US must postpone Kirkuk referendum

Gustavo Coronel: A letter to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez: On the subject of his oil handouts to Fidel Castro.

VenEconomy: Equal before dispossession under the law

VER: Economic Freedom Index 2007

 

Gustavo Coronel: Corruption in PetroEcuador and PDVSA: The Marc Rich connection

Veneconomy: Exterminator of institutions

Ian Welsh : Pouring oil on the Middle East Fire

Veneconomy: Chavez's : Sunday program’s messages

Oliver L Campbell: Unintended consequences of Venezuela's new social projects' regulations

 

Global Insight : Middle East energy analysis

Gustavo Coronel: Chavez five enemies

Los AngelesTimes: No to nukes

Michael J. Economides: PDVSA's 'Operational Emergency'

 

VenEconomy : Surrendering the country piecemeal

Michael Rowan : The price of oil

Scott Sullivan: Turkish elections will stabilize Iraq

VenEconomy : Unthinkable solidarity

Oliver L Campbell: Arbitration under a Bilateral Investment Treaty

 

Oliver L Campbell : Conocophilips' compensation for walking away from Venezuela

Scott Sullivan : Iraqs oil law rescues Iran's nukes

Robert A. de By and Amy L. Rudd: Venezuela: foreign investors on the road
to arbitration

W. K. Clark and J. R. Reeder : Free trade with Panama is win-win

Oliver L Campbell : Compensation best agreed without recourse to arbitration

 

VenEconomy: Fatherland, socialism or death!

The Washington Post : Mr. Chávez's Friends

VenEconomy: The common good is not the objective

VenEconomy: The world’s getting smaller and smaller

Gustavo Coronel: ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips leaving Venezuela

VenEconomy: On the razor’s edge

 

Scott Sullivan: Reagan rollback of Iran will work

VenEconomy: There is no hiding the obvious

VenEconomy: The emperor’s clothes

Our view: War ?

VenEconomy : The veil has fallen to reveal the face of doom!

 

Scott Sullivan : Iran's putsch in Gaza brings many blessings for Turkey

VenEconomy: The road to hell

Oliver L Campbell : Serious problems with the Orinoco Belt negotiations

David Lee Smith : Has OPEC Lost Its Moorings?

VenEconomy: Pernicious indifference

VenEconomy: “Socialist” aberrations

VenEconomy: Freedom YES; hegemony NO

Gustavo Coronel: The collapse of Chavez’s Petroleos de Venezuela

 

VenEconomy : Indignation!

VenEconomy : On the threshold of a crisis

VenEconomy : Exposed

VenEconomy : Exposed

Gustavo Coronel : A letter for Danny Glove

Scott Sullivan : US must co-opt Syria in Iraq

 

Scott Sullivan : US must co-opt Syria in Iraq

VenEconomy : Backtracking and down the slippery slope

Scott Sullivan : Why does the U.S. prefer Iran to Syria?

VenEconomy : A man is known …

Our View : Ahmadinejad's breakthrough in Europe

 

Our View: Will World Bank purge Jews and help Iran?

Washington Times: Tehran's cheating and CIA spinr

Our view: Stop the Cheney pro-Iran steamroller

Our view: Wolfowitz for Secretary of State

Loren Steffy : I have a question for Hugo Chavez: Now what?

 

Scott Sullivan : US jews must protect
Wolfowitz

Our View: Germany assaults Bush on Wolfowitz

VenEconomy: On the threshold of bankruptcy

Ken Silverstein : Canada changes course

Scott Sullivan : Iran-Germany versus Russia-France: the real
war

 

 

VenEconomy: Less not more

VenEconomy: Digging the pit deeper and deeper

Scott Sullivan : Turkey needs US reassurance on Kurds

Scott Sullivan : Bush Joins Iran and Hugo Chavez

VenEconomy: In pursuit of what he wants

 

Bernardo Álvarez : A terrorist goes free

VenEconomy: Cobbled seams revealed…

The New York Times : Betraying a democratic legacy

Oliver L Campbell: The important figure is PDVSA’S government take

Oliver L Campbell: Sale of CITGO the last option to reduce sales to
USA

 

VenEconomy: Reserves down to zero

VenEconomy: The peoples are the losers

VenEconomy: The summit and the abyss

VenEconomy: Yet another black mark against PDVSA

 

Our View: Turkey has three options on Kirkuk

Gustavo Coronel : PDVSA' s financial formula: I+LT=C

Uranium enrichment, for light bulbs or for bombs

Andrés Soliz Rada: Bolivia: Nationalization on its knees

Our View: U.S. double standard on terror

 

 

VenEconomy: All mouth and no trousers

Scott Sullivan : Down with China's gang of four

VenEconomy: Better safe than sorry

VenEconomy: Fund hungry?

 

 

Scott Sullivan : Russiacrushes Iran

Oliver L Campbell: Expropriation of sharesin Orinoco Belt consortia

VenEconomy: Sad but true

Gustavo Coronel :Petroleos de Venezuela:Chavez’s financial punching ball

Scott Sullivan : Russia crushes Iran

Scott Sullivan :Ledeen and Gaffney: Stop Ahmadinejads Visa

 

 

Scott Sullivan : Russia crushes Iran

PW View : Talabani and Ahmadinejad threaten Iraq

ABC of Madrid: Chavez an elected dictador

VenEconomy: Report of a heralded death

PW View: Bush/Sadr contain Iran and Kurds

Fernando Báez : On the road with Bush and Chávez

 

 

Fernando Báez : On the road with Bush and Chávez

VenEconomy: A champion of agricultural development?

VenEconomy: In blacksmith house ...

Robert Bottome : Perverse tax law changes…

PW View : US-Iran War on Turkey

 

 

The New York Times : Thanks to Mr. Chávez

VenEconomy: From reform to “reconversion”

PW View : Putin: Don't Arm Chavez!

Remarks by George W. Bush on the Western hemisphere
policy

The Washington Post : Venezuela's Satellites A year of elections has left democracy and free markets flourishing in most of Latin America. Pity the exceptions.

 

Chron.com : How do you solve a problem like Venezuela?

The Devil's Excrement : The Bono del Sur 2: Free money for the rich masses

Michael Rowan : The big liars

kommersant : The Agreed Leadership

Bill Richardson : Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran

Our View : Russia will rescue Iraq

 

 

Our View : Russia will rescue Iraq

Our View : The uncompleted migration process

Daniel Mandel: Twisting democratic virtues

 

Gustavo Coronel: Al Qaeda: What took them so long

Our View : North Korea and Iran

The New York Times : The Lesson of North Korea

VenEconomy: Corruption: ten years on and zilch

VenEconomy: Get out the candles!

Washington Times : U.S. antitrust, Venezuela and oil prices

 

Washington Times : U.S. antitrust, Venezuela and oil prices

Scott Sullivan : Break Up Iraq -- Why Not Palestine?

Our View : Maliki/Sadr confront Kurds/Iran

Scott Sullivan: US should attack Kurds on oil sabotage

Scott Sullivan: Secretary Rice protects Morales and Talabani

The Washington Post: Venezuela's Satellites

 

Our View : No exit plan for US forces in Iraq

Michael Rowan: Changing systems

Asdrubal Aguiar : The Cuban bible of the social revolution of the XXI century

VenEconomy: Two impacts from the Sunday program

Alexandra Starr: History offers warning to Venezuela's president

 

 

VenEconomy: Coup de grâce

VenEconomy: What’s the President afraid of ?

Our View : Chavez and Iran will lose

VenEconomy: Laying waste to everything

VenEconomy: Bound for hegemony in communications

Scott Sullivan: Bush joins Iran and Venezuela in new axis

Our View : Bush to visit Tehran?

 

 

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