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
CSM/Jonathan
Cutler and Thaddeus Russell : Workers of the world ... disunite!
Washington
Post: Look to Virginia, Not China
Andres
Oppenheimer: Chávez's bold move: politicizing the armed forces
Andres
Oppenheimer: Coming soon: the United States of the Caribbean
Robert
Dreyfuss : Oil-Control
Formula
Oscar
Arias : Export Goods, Not People
CSM/Anatol
Lieven and Rajan Menon : Engage Iran, support pipeline
Gustavo
Coronel: PDVSA: courting tax criminals and insulting partners. Chavez
cannot have it both ways.
The
Washington Post: The overlooked attack
Michael
Rowan: Liberation from Shame
Daniel
Schorr : Is it too early to say 'no more Iraqs' ?
Enrique
Krauze: The pride in Memin Pinguin
WP/
David J. Rothkopf: Values Conundrum Will the U.S. and China Play by
the Same Rules?
WP/Marcela
Sanchez: A chance to bridge the Americas' gap
VER
on line: Freedom of Expression
NYT/Thomas
Friedman: We Are All French Now?
Hampden
Macbeth: The not so odd couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez
and Cuba’s Fidel Castro
CSM/John
Hughes : 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
Andres Oppenheimer:
Corruption scandal will push Lula to center
CSM/John
Hughes :
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
Andres
Oppenheimer:
Corruption scandal will push Lula to center
WP/Michael Kinsley: 'Oil Tax' Greases Wheels of Rich
UPI/Andrea R. Mihailescu: China's new Silk Road?
Andres Oppenheimer: Anti-Hispanic fearmongers create false
crisis
Carlos
Alberto Montaner : Chávez
leading the nation to chaos
UPI/William M. Reilly: The latest in the oil-for-food scandal
Milton
Friedman : Free to choose
Carlos
Alberto Montaner : Chávez leading the nation to chaos
UPI/Donna
Borak: Another strong push for
CAFTA
The
Washington Post /Jackson Diehl: The facade of latin democracy
The Washington Post /Jackson Diehl: The facade of latin democracy
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