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Opinion

Jan - Dec 2004


2005

 

 

The Freeport News : An opportunity we cannot afford to ignore

Scott Sullivan : Chronology of Conflict -- the Iran/Chavez Coalition

The White House: Presidential determination on major drug transit
or major illicit drug producing countries for fiscal year 2006

Scott Sullivan: Stopping Iran via Israel and Saudi Arabia

NYT/Nicholas D. Kristof : Meet the Fakers

The New York Yimes: Katrina and the Gas Pump

The Washington Post: The Rehnquist Era

Andres Oppenheimer: President Bush could use advice for summit

 


The Washington Times: Panic at the pump

Charles Krauthammer: A Sensible Iraqi Constitution

William F. Buckley Jr. : Robertson's death wishes

WP/ Fareed Zakaria: Mile by mile, into the oil trap

Scott Sullivan: The Answer in Iraq

Arnaud de Borchgrave: A new Castro with big money

Andres Oppenheimer : New Latin affairs chief quieter, just as tough

Norman Solomon : Don't Give Bush An Exit Strategy

 

New York Post: A gift to a thugh

Times Watch: Pat Robertson, "Inflammatory," But Hugo Chavez is "Charismatic"

COHA / Hampden Macbeth : Rumsfeld and Rice on Chávez: But Where’s the Beef?

Media Matters for America : Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuela's president

TCS/Coley Hudgins: The Yanquis Are Coming!

 

 

WT/Carmen Gentile: Scandal mars Brazilian president

Oliver North: Under the radar

William Murchison: Lethargic energy bill

The Washington Times: Latin America sees progress

Marcela Sanchez: Fresh air in U.S. Latin America team

 

Gustavo Coronel : Chavez jinx already working on Ecuador

FT/Chuck Hagel : America must show wisdom in relations with China

WP/Marcela Sanchez: Fresh Air in U.S. Latin America Team

The Guardian: Nuclear brinkmanship

Andres Oppenheimer: U.S. shouldn't try to counter Chávez TV network

AFP/Peter Capella: EU loses banana war with Latin America at WTO

 

 

NYT/Bob Herbert: Oil and Blood

Daniel Yergin: It's not the end of the oil age

WP/Marcela Sanchez: A plea for a broader consensus for Latin America

UPI Analysis/ Claude Salhani : Fahd dead, Abdullah is new king

Enrique del Val Blanco: Washington's Attack on Freedom of the Press

 

CSM/William Ratliff: Latin America's flickering democracy

 

 

 

 

: 25 mpg won't end US energy problem

CERA Report: Oil & liquids capacity to outstrip demand until at least 2010

Gustavo Coronel: When Bucaram meets Mussolini

 

: 25 mpg won't end US energy problem

CERA Report: Oil & liquids capacity to outstrip demand until at least 2010

Gustavo Coronel: When Bucaram meets Mussolini

 

 

UPI/William M. Reilly: The latest in the oil-for-food scandal

Milton Friedman : Free to choose

 

 

Andres Oppenheimer: Will OAS nations be `nonindifferent?'

US Today/Philip Meyer : The lessons of 'Deep Throat' and Watergate

Eduardo Riveros:Interview with Sean Rooney, President of Shell Venezuela

The Washington Post/ Jonathan Ernst: The man who would be president

 

 

The Christian Science Monitor: Latin oil romance

CSM/Mark Clayton : Can hybrids save US from foreign oil?

Marcela Sanchez: Please don't shoot

NYT Joseph Rotblat: The 50-Year Shadow

 

NYT Juan Forero: Foreign gas companies in Bolivia face sharply higher taxes

Anders Aslund : Betraying a Revolution

Enrique Bolanos : Facing down the Sandinistas

CSM/Danna Harman: Latin strongman rebels against US-centric news

The Washington Times : Tony Blair's last hurrah

The Washington Times : South America, Arabs end summit

 

Arnaud de Borchgrave: Using cues of the past

Oppenheimer report : Brazil may be overplaying hand as South American superpower

Arianna Huffington Blog : Saudi Arabia has a plan to protect itself
from a possible invasion or internal attack

The Christian Science Monitor: Rising call: Cut US oil imports

Agustin Blanco MuÑoz : Petrodollarsand repression to consolidate Chávez' process

 

Orlando Sentinel : Nervous Venezuelans seek safety in S. Florida real estate

CleanPeace:Bush wrong: House passed energy bill threatens
economic and national security

Jyoti Thottam: Why gas won't get cheaper

 

 

John Ritch : The key to our energy future

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen : The future of Cuban - American relations

Balaji Reddy : The next Iraq -Venezuela

AFP : Behind the celebration bells, Latin America questions new pope


CITGO: The troubled oil company

 

Michael Rowan : Relativity

 

 

Michael Rowan : Relativity

NYT B. Ackerman and J. Ackerman: Immune to Democracy

NYT Simon Romero: Citgo's status is giving Houston the jitter

WP Jefferson Morley: Is Bush right?

Roberto Giusti: US diplomat: Alleged plot to assassinate Chávez is false

 

REV : Arms Race

NYT Juan Forero : China's oil diplomacy lures Latin America

Harvard's Ricardo Hausmann & Roberto Rigobon: On Venezuela's electoral fraud

NYT :OPEC member burdened by high oil price

NYT Nicholas D. Kristof :The Secret Genocide Archive

 

Natural Gas Intelligence : Gas review

The Houston Chronicle : Our Chavez problem

Oliver Campbell : Is the investment in Lyondell-CITGO
Refining really a disaster

CSM Daniel Schorr : The new face of US diplomacy

The Oppenheimer Report : Carter plan could retire Chávez

 

Richard Holbrooke: The End of the Romance

Fox News: The Iron Fist of Hugo Chavez

Martin Hutchinson : The Bear's Lair: The doomed continent?

Marianna Parraga : Interview with Professor Mazhar Al Shereida

NYT Editorial: Encouraging Nuclear Proliferation

 

Veneconomy:The cost of separation

Washington Times: Chavez insults Rice

WP/David Kay: Let's Not Make the Same Mistakes in Iran

AFP : Oil, oil everywhere but not a drop of water to drink in E Guinea capital

 

India´s Daily Prem Saga:Taking lesson from Iraq, Venezuela prepares
for military confrontation with America

UPI Carmen Gentile: Chavez keeps the controversy brewing

The CS Monitor's View : Venezuela's Robin Hood

NYT/ Elaine Sciolino : United States and Europe Differ Over Strategy on Iran

CSM David R. Francis : China's risky scramble for oil

UPI´s Carlos Coello: Analysis: Venezuela president ally of China

Canada´s CDM: The U.S.-Venezuela oil split approaches a boiling point

David Rendwick:Tackling declining reserves

Peter Millard : Venezuela courts oil states amid scraps with majors

Beatriz E. Rangel: Investing in Latin America and the Caribbean

US Senators Jon S. Corzine and Sam Brownback: Stop the Genocide

A. M. Mora y Leon :The Chavez premium

 

Marcela Sanchez : Uribe not Just another Chavez

Carlos Alberto Montaner : War possible in the next few years

Houston Cronicle: Venezuela out to get better deals by rewriting its contracts for oil

U.S. Senator Bill Nelson : South America beset by `crisis after crisis'

 

 

CSM David R. Francis :
China's risky scramble for oil

UPI´s Carlos Coello:
Analysis: Venezuela president ally of China

Canada´s CDM:
The U.S.-Venezuela oil split approaches a boiling point

David Rendwick:Tackling declining reserves

Peter Millard :
Venezuela courts oil states amid scraps with majors

 

Beatriz E. Rangel:
Investing in Latin America and the Caribbean

US Senators Jon S. Corzine and Sam Brownback:
Stop the Genocide

A. M. Mora y Leon :The Chavez premium

Venezuelan crisis

Special on PDVSA

 

Agustin Blanco Muñoz : From "neo-revolution" to the big trap A political project doomed to failure

The Economist : Magic, or realism?

NYT`s William Safire : A World of Hurt

NYT`s Nicholas D. Kristof : Facing Down the Killer

Michael Rowan : We are all Jews

Michael Rowan : Powerty

 

 

 

Michael Rowan : Strategy

U.S. Ambassador Brownfield : "Venezuelan government should observe
the agreements it has signed"

Mary Anastasia O´Grady : Nigth falls on Caracas, with
no Carter in sight

 

Dr. Joe Duarte : Is Gazprom going to get Yukos?

Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit : What happened to Iraq's oil money?

UPI Outside view: Iran's nukes - what's the problem?

William Safire: 'My Son, My Son

IMDG Code compliance is mandatory, warns TT Club

 

Edwidge Danticat: A Very Haitian Story

The New York Times : Venezuela shuffles leadership of oil industry

Andes Oppenheimer: Latin America should learn from China's success

Alan Berlow: The President's Yes Man

Washington Post: Watch Venezuela

 

Washington Post: Powell's flawed exit strategy

NY Post: Calling Condoleeza

William Safire: Bush Administration's Biblical Exodus

Washington Post: Abraham : Nonproliferation efforts won praise

Jimmy Carter : Casting a vote for peace

 

By Julio Godoy, Inter Press Service : U.S. policy towards Taliban influenced by 0il - say authors

BusinessWeek : Oil: The View from "a Long-Term Bull"

CNN Jacqueline S. Gold : Bush, Oil Batter Clean Energy Stocks

Financial Times :Hugo Chavez: Blame it on Rio

Associated Press:A summary of President Bush's plans

 

Washington Post : The day after

WP´s Robert J. Samuelson : Oil fantasies

 

Juliet Eilperin : Bush, Kerry styles clash on environment

Jackson Diehl :Putin's unchallenged imperialist

Dan Keating :Electronic Voting raises new issues

Francisco Toro: 100 good reasons not to believe Venezuela's Chavez

Paul Krugman: Voting and Counting

 

Martin Hutchinson:The Bear's Lair: What comes after oil?
Sarah Whalen:Choosing between boilerplate and one who is prodigiously insincere

EV On Line : Petroleum Royalties

The Christian Science : Why the rude oil prices?

STRATFOR: Venezuela's paper army

 

Gustavo Coronel: Oil royalties: Venezuela´s “War of the Roses”

Martin Hutchinson:The Bear's Lair: What comes after oil?

Sarah Whalen:Choosing between boilerplate and one who is prodigiously insincere

EV On Line : Petroleum Royalties

The Christian Science : Why the rude oil prices?

STRATFOR: Venezuela's paper army


A Letter to Financial Times

AFP: The long reach of Saddam's largesse

ConocoPhillips: Sustainable development position statement and Gulf of Paria´s commitment

Edwin Feulner: Oil-for-Food a bogus plan

Gustavo Coronel: Venezuelans find consolation in Baseball.

 

Gustavo Coronel: Venezuelans find consolation in Baseball.

Aleksander Boyd: Venezuela's recall: An e-conversation with Jennifer McCoy, part II

François-Xavier Gomez : Oil war threatens Nigeria

Carroll Andrew Morse : What Dan Rather and the Carter Center need to learn

Vinod Sreeharsha : Interview with Venezuelan foreign minister Jésus Pérez

Bassam Fattouh :The investment challenge for OPEC: The cost of a barrel
of crude may ease, prices will remain volatile

 

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Venezuela´s oil-for- migs program

The Holland Sentinel: End of an era

WP Dan Balz and Vanessa Williams: Poll shows Bush with solid lead

Charlie Kimber: Oil: reason behind coup bid

Aleksander Boyd: Venezuela's recall: An e-conversation with Jennifer McCoy

 

UPI Analysis: Is China inching toward democracy?

Vinod Sreeharsha : Venezuela and India strengthen trade ties

Salih Booker : The crisis in Darfur: This wolf is real, and nobody's listening

UPI Commentary: Iraq can work for Kerry -- maybe

Brian Wilson: Like it or not, the fossils aren't dead yet

 

Jennifer McCoy: What really happened in Venezuela?

Lisa Margonelli : Anatomy of an industry

WSJ: Saudis pledge 800,000 b/d of new oil by month-end

OAS resolution on the referendum

Stephen Johnson : Carter's bungling hurt Venezuela

Venezuela needs to reconsider its endorsement
of the ICJ opinion on Israel security barrier

Letters to the Editor - Herald.com: ¨God save Venezuela
from the Carter Center¨

Workers World newspaper :Carter in Venezuela

Michael Shifter : Venezuela's contained revolution

The Jamaican Observer : The enemy of my enemy

 

UPI Analysis: The Middle East's woes

The international forecaster: on oil

UPI Analysis: Good news eases oil prices

Michael Rowan: A Farce

Gustavo Coronel : Hello world: This is half of the Venezuelan people speaking

Andres Oppenheimer : Chávez could act to deepen his `revolution'

 

NewsMax: Even EU wouldn't accept Venezuela's election

VenEconomy: Stepping up the revolution

VenEconomy: Watch what he does, Maisto says

Invest Venezuela: With high oil prices, do not take the wrong path

Thailand`s Chavez

Gustavo Coronel : Petroleos de Venezuela: The third best business in the world

 

Secretary Colin L. Powell: Venezuelan Referendum

The scientific poll on the Venezuelan referendum: Yes - 51% / No - 43%

Other Views: Venezuela`s referendum

VOA Analysis:
Rising oil prices reflect demand outstripping supply

 

U.S. Ambassador to Brazil John J. Danilovich: the United States applauds
Brazil's emergence as a world leader

George P. Schultz: A Record of Recovery

Houston Chronicle: World's growing need a challenge to big oil

Venezuela`s gold mining saga

MEES: Kerry calls for US ‘Forever independent of Mideast oil

UPI`s : Kerry claims values, religion, patriots

UPI`s Outside View: Energy draw in Central Asia

UPI Analysis: Kremlin and the post-Yukos era

US OPIC vs Venezuela`s PDVSA: Memorandum of Determinations Overseas Private Investment Corporation

US OPIC vs Venezuela`s PDVSA: Gustavo Coronel : Who are the real
gangsters in the OPIC-PDVSA case?

Quiroz Corradi. : "My only concern is the CNE's incompetence"

Paul Krugman: Machine at Work

Michael Rowan: The real story

US OPIC vs Venezuela`s PDVSA: Gustavo Coronel : Who are the real gangsters in the OPIC-PDVSA case?

UPI Analysis: Pew poll has good news for Kerry

NYT`s Brian Ellsworth: Crucial vote for Venezuela and a Company

TIME: The Latin Oil Czar Can a former guerrilla lead Venezuela's oil monopoly
to do well by doing good?

Enrique ter Horst: Venezuela: Situation report 7/18/04

Aleksander Boyd: The Measure of Democracy: assessing Venezuela…

NYT `s Simon Romero: Spanish seek oil off Cuba, as Americans watch silently

Daniel Yergin : U.S. Energy Supply at "Critical Juncture"

Gustavo Coronel : Reflections on Independence Day

South Africa`s Business Day: OPEC plays for survival as oil prices tempt its rivals

AP: Mideast isn't only spot oil is vulnerable

Gustavo Coronel : The Technical and Moral Decay of Petroleos de Venezuela.
(1999-2004).

 

UPI Analysis: Lay fights criminal charges

South Africa`s Business Day: OPEC plays for survival as oil prices tempt its rivals

AP: Mideast isn't only spot oil is vulnerable

Gustavo Coronel : The Technical and Moral Decay of Petroleos de Venezuela.
(1999-2004).

Christian Aid: Fuelling suspicion: the coalition and Iraq’s oil billions

DailyTexan: Helpless in a petroleum fishbowl

Lee R. Raymond: Remarks at the International Energy Business Forum

Michael Rowan: Motivation to Vote

Daniel Yergin : Imagining a $7-a-Gallon Future

Guardian´s David Adam : Oil chief: my fears for planet

The Economist: The Next Round

Doreen Hemlock and Diana Marrero : Profits are likely if oil is found in Cuban waters

Phil Gunson: Chávez's goal: 2-to-1 victory

Time Magazine on Ronald Reagan

UPI analysis: Panama vies to host ALCA

RONALD REAGAN: 1911 - 2004

Peter Lavelle : UPI Analysis: Putin's oil cartel

Council on Hemispheric Affairs :
Venezuela’s most challenging moment is here

Michael Rowan: A supreme pleasure

Colin L. Powell: Democracy in Venezuela

UPI analysis: Venezuela closer to boiling point

Charleston Voice: Move Over Iraq - Venezuela Next on the Elitists' "Hit" List

Cambridge ´s Stanislaw: Energy competititon or cooperation: Shifting
the paradigm

UPI´s Hil Anderson : Saudi words on oil carry clout

Elio Cequea : The ten violations to the Constitution in the new TSJ bill

Gustavo Coronel: An encounter with Robert S. McNamara.

Elio Cequea : The ten violations to the Constitution in the new TSJ bill

Gustavo Coronel: An encounter with Robert S. McNamara.

State´s Richard Boucher briefed reporters May 10.:
Millennium Challenge Corporation/briefing, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Israel/ Palestinians, Sudan, Haiti

David J. O'Reilly:
Energy and the develping world: The need for new kins of partnerships

Elio Cequea :
The ten violations to the Constitution in the new TSJ bill

Gustavo Coronel: An encounter with Robert S. McNamara.

State´s Richard Boucher briefed reporters May 10.:
Millennium Challenge Corporation/briefing, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Israel/ Palestinians, Sudan, Haiti

David J. O'Reilly: Energy and the develping world:
The need for new kins of partnerships

U.S. Secretary of Energy: U.S. National Energy Policy and Global Energy Security

Andrew McKillop: Calling the bluff of cheap oil

MEES : What Kind Of Sovereignty?

UPI analysis: Would Chavez's demise affect Cuba?

Contrato Free Market Petroleum-MEM

Luis Marin to CITGO employees

U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus:
Statement on Human Rights and Democracy in Venezuela

Mohamed Hamaludin: Aristide´s Ouster
CARICOM an expert in overcoming crises

Africa´s Vanguard: US SEC Questions Oil Giants' Reserves

Miami Herald: U.S. Sen. Nelson rails on Venezuela´s Chávez,
policies 'unfriendly' to U.S.

U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus:
Statement on Human Rights and Democracy in Venezuela

Mohamed Hamaludin: Aristide´s Ouster
CARICOM an expert in overcoming crises

Africa´s Vanguard: US SEC Questions Oil Giants' Reserves

Miami Herald: U.S. Sen. Nelson rails on Venezuela´s Chávez,
policies 'unfriendly' to U.S.

The Guardian : The mini-car that runs on natural gas

BBC: Deforestation could turn the Amazon into a desert

Alan Reynolds: Oil reserves and politics

Mike Bitondo: Next US president must find gas solution

Caracas to spur lagging natural gas industry

Joseph J. Romm: Lots of Hot Air About Hydrogen

What's greasing OPEC's gears?

A dangerous stalemate in Venezuela

What's greasing OPEC's gears?

A dangerous stalemate in Venezuela

Oil prices will fall to 25-28 dollars: Saudi FM

US companies potential victims, goats in energy crisis: report

Bush, Kerry, and green differences in a tight race, the environment could swing undecideds

Oil prices will fall to 25-28 dollars: Saudi FM

US companies potential victims, goats in energy crisis: report

Bush, Kerry, and green differences in a tight race, the environment could swing undecideds

All roads from hell and back lead to Fidel

EDITORIAL: Developing oil in Iran

The insidious influence of resented Cuban intellectuals
in the Venezuelan politics?

Saudi Arabia's reserves:Is the glass half empty?


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