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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.
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