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Op-Ed Commentary 2008
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Scott Sullivan : Gates Must Go!
Scott Sullivan : Obama Must Shun Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Ortega
Pedro M. Burelli : What goes up must come down: Oil betrays those it empowered
Washington Post :Mr. Chávez tries again
Vakhtang Maisaia : Russia's New Energy Geopolitics: Way to Heal Economics or Politics?
John Hall: the OPEC Conference Oran, Algeria, 17th. December, 2008
Francisco Toro : Chavez after the oil boom
Scott Sullivan: Will Al-Qaeda block Iran in Pakistan
Scott Sullivan: Will Al-Qaeda block Iran in Pakistan?
FP Passport: Chávez running on fumes?
VenEconomy : The consequences of ten years of harassment
Scott Sullivan : Obama and al-Qaeda vs Iran
Randy Woods : Mexico: Now comes the hard part
M K Bhadrakumar : Strange storm brews in South Asia
Pedro M. Burelli : Medvedev and "Peter the Great" in Venezuela: Some press fallout
David Ignatius : An F for Bush's Iran policy
VenEconomy : From one absurdity to the next
Gustavo Coronel: Hugo Chavez's bleak political future
The New York Times : Hugo Chávez's choice
Scott Sullivan: US must favor Syria
Scott Sullivan: Obama's Iraq Crisis
Scott Sullivan: Gates and Clinton Help Iran
David Cho /Washington Post: On Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr
Scott Sullivan: Put Richardson at State !
Oliver Campbell : Selection of participants for developing the Carabobo Area
Scott Sullivan: Obama must stop Iran
VenEconomy : Three cases worthy of monitoring
Scott Sullivan : Obama, Iran, and al-Qaeda
Scott Sullivan : Obama becomes Hero on Iraq
Scott Sullivan : Obama's top priority must be Iraq
Scott Sullivan : bConservatives must rescue Obama
Thomas L. Friedman: Finishing our work
Barack Obama 's victory speech
Scott Sullivan: Wii Bush Sink Obama in Iraq and Bolivia?
Latin American Advisor : Can the United States achieve independence
from Venezuelan oilOliver L Campbell : Why threats and counter-threats are not useful
Scott Sullivan: Iran’s December test for Obama
John Mercurio : Is McCain winning the week?
Scott Sullivan : How Iran will test Obama
VenEconomy: A coup against arbitration
Oliver L Campbell : Has PDVSA abandoned the concept of Joint Ventures?
Scott Sullivan : Six tests for Senator McCain
Andres Oppenheimer: Falling oil prices a bad omen for Chávez
Jose Miguel Vivanco , Daniel Wilkinson : Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights
VenEconomy : It's no laughing matter
Tim Wood : A glimpse of the future of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
Scott Sullivan : Obama will crush terrorism
PW : the candidates proposals on energy
VenEconomy : A portrait of totalitarianismVenEconomy :The crisis has taken up residence Washington Times : A choice for Latin America
VenEconomy : In search of courage lost
VenEconomy : Unconstitutional law No. 27
VenEconomy : Wednesday, decision time
Scott Sullivan : McCain misfired on security issues
Scott Sullivan : Bush creates national socialism in the US!
Gustavo Coronel:Why PDVSA CEO should be made to resign
Gustavo Coronel:Why PDVSA CEO should be made to resign
Oliver Campbell : PDVSA Operational and Financial
Report--1st Semester 2008Scott Sullivan : Palin must confront Evo Morales
The Dallas Morning News: Trouble lurks in Venezuela
Human Rigths Watch : A Decade Under Chávez Political intolerance and lost opportunities for advancing Human Rights in Venezuela
Scott Sullivan : Is Abramowitz working for Germany and Iran?VenEconomy : The bubbles collapse
VenEconomy : A smokescreen?
Scott Sullivan : McCain and Obama appease Iran
VenEconomy : A country in decline The Times: Oil
on troubled watersJohn Hall Associates: The market is over
supplied with oil - targets to be adhered to !VenEconomy : Traveling into the dark
William Safire : The Maverick Ticket
Barbara Curtis : Sarah Palin can have it all
Barbara Curtis : Sarah Palin can have it all
VenEconomy : This is no tall taleScott Sullivan: McCain Abandons Palin
Scott Sullivan: Palin the next Dick Cheney
VenEconomy: He thought, “Eliminate property…” and it was eliminated
VenEconomy: Justice left, but when will it be back?
Rich Duprey : Venezuela's diva belts out a new tune
VenEconomy: An insatiable desire for control
VenEconomy: And will silence reign?
VenEconomy: Lifelong President, a dream come true!
Gustavo Coronel: CEMEX: The latest Chavez fiasco
VenEconomy: Overstepping the bounds of the Constitution
Juan Cristobal : Does Cemex Matter?
Michael Fitzsimmons : Oil will only fall so farVenEconomy: Will TSJ have a flash of sanity?
VenEconomy: Only darkness at the end of the tunnel
Robert Kagan/WP : Putin makes his move
The Washington Post :Power Grab
Ruth Marcos/WP: Crude campaigning
VenEconomy: Chronology of a bank’s demise
Scott Sullivan: Huckabee must block Iran in Cuba
Carin Zissis: The Uncertain Fate of Pemex
Marla Dickerson/LATimes: Mexicans ponder oil- industry future
Oliver L Campbell: Subsidised Fuel Prices in Venezuela
Timothy Egan /NYT: The oil man cometh
VenEconomy: From blackout to blackout
Max Delany: Chavez likely to get weapons, not support
Dan Ariely: Eyes off the price
STATEMENT BY U.S. ASSISTANT SEC. OF STATE THOMAS A. SHANNON
Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to appear before this Committee today to address the theme:
“Venezuela: Looking Ahead.”
Richard Goldstone: Catching a war criminal in the act
VenEconomy: A change in direction, but bound for where?
Robert Bryce: The democrats’ no-drill energy plan
Randy Woods :Venezuelan LNG: Really!
Norman Geras: The shielding of political criminals
VenEconomy: Black clouds on the horizon
VenEconomy: A turnabout of 360°
VenEconomy: Precipitating a debacle
VenEconomy: Time to take a stand!
Scott Sullivan: US is surrendering to Iran
Gustavo Coronel: PEMEX: how to produce more oil, more efficiently?
Bush, First and Flynn : A legal case against the OPEC cartel
Alan Benjamin : Confrontation over Mexican oil privatization plan intensifies
The Economist : Venezuela's economy: A funny way to beat inflation
John Hall: Jeddah Energy Meeting
Gustavo Coronel: In Latin America: Nsocialism of the XXI century is stillborn
VenEconomy: A cuckoo in the nest
VenEconomy: The clamor of the people
Scott Sullivan: Osama is US savior in Iraq
Oliver L Campbell: Will Petrobras Join OPEC?
VenEconomy: More, much more of the same
VenEconomy: A tactical withdrawal
Gail Collins : What Hillary won
VenEconomy: There’s no “co-” to it
Peter Wilson/BW: Lights Out in Venezuela
VenEconomy: SINful absence of the rule of law
Ken Livingstone: A piece of mindless vandalism
VenEconomy: Contraction forewarned
VenEconomy: A bottomless pit of illegality
VenEconomy: Venezuela in high esteem
Diane Francis : Oil shock: China and Mexico, not Exxon, stupid
Gustavo Coronel: If the price of a barrel of oil hits $200, will there be war?
Martin Rosenberg/ EnergyBiz : A Movement Is Born
Investor's Business Daily: Mexico's oiling days are numbered
Gustavo Coronel: INTERPOL publishes its FARC report and Chavez calls them “ clowns”
Scott Sullivan: US Must Attack Iran!
VenEconomy: Sights set on the mines
Opinion L.A.: Scenes from Occidental shareholder meeting
Sarah Knopp : Who will control Mexico's oil?
Carin Zissis : Bolivia's widening gap
Simon Romero : Ecuador’s Leader purges military and moves to expel american base
Global Insight : Biofuels come under attack over rising food prices
The Christian Science Monitor: Untapped oil, overtapped politics
Investors's Business Daily: Hugo's all-too- predictable shortages
VeneEconomy: Unperturbed, he’s walking off with everything
Simon Romero : Ecuador’s Leader purges
military and moves to expel american baseVenEconomy: Destructive shows of bravado
VenEconomy: Murky, sovereign maneuverings
Oliver L Campbell: Windfall Tax - The Law on Special Contributions
PW: Some do better than others
Scott Sullivan: Sadr on the world stage
Lisa Richardson: Chevron takes on the plaintiffs
VenEconomy: A suspicious index
Scott Sullivan: Bush should apologize to Sadr
VenEconomy : The stains of April the 11th
VenEconomy : Tomorrow is too late?
VenEconomy : Scraping the bottom of every barrel
Oliver L Campbell : New Venezuelan tax on the extraordinary profits of oil companies
Lawhawk: Mugabe's Last Stand ?
Scott Sullivan: Sadr must imitate Khmer Rouge
E & P : IAPA: Chavez overriding Venezuelan
referendum by anti-Free speech decreesVenEconomy : Getting desperate
Ed Tubbs : The Democratic ticket is.........
Scott Sullivan: Mao will defeat Iran
Global Insight: Violence in Southern Iraq threatening
oil exportsScott Sullivan: Clintons must repudiate Nazi ties
VenEcconomy : PDVSA’s wings beginning to be clipped
Gustavo Coronel: State oil ownership in Latin America: The dilemma
of the starving monkey.Steven Mufson: A crude case for war?
Oliver L Campbell : On Exxon compensation
Pedro Miguel Burelli: Once more on sanctions: It's the facts, stupid!...
CPR not requiredOliver L Campbell: PDVSA’S national contribution is the figure that counts
Scott Sullivan: Hillary plays the race card
Scott Sullivan: Would Hillary negotiate with the PKK?
Pedro M. Burrelli: What do we do now with Mr. Chavez?
VenEconomy: Joining the outlaw club?
Scott Sullivan: Chavez faces defeat in Bolivia
Phil Gunson : Why Colombia will win its contest with Venezuela
Gustavo Coronel: War in the Andes?
Pedro M. Burelli: Mr. Chavez's plan A in motion: A truly B &W affair
VenEconomy: A violent truthScott Sullivan: McCain appeases Ahmadinedjad on Baghdad
Scott Sullivan: Putin and McCain must stop Iran
Scott Sullivan: McCain must impeach Bush on Iraq
Scott Sullivan: Kurds will sink McCain
Pablo Bachelet : Candidates' Latin America experts a clue to policy
VenEconomy: Lessons in democracy
VenEconomy: Sailing in the sea of happiness
VenEconomy: Desperation, cynicism or ignorance?
VenEconomy : Who’s the traitor
Michael Goldblatt and Daniel Mandel : Gaza's Palestinian civilians are not Israel's responsibility ?
Houston Chronicle : R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Think Tank: Oil policy puts PDVSA under pressure
Oliver L Campbell: ExxonMobil seek more than net book value
Scott Sullivan: McCain and Clinton evade Kosovo accountibility
Scott Sullivan: Kosovo/Kurdish crisis collapses McCain and Clinton
The New York Times: Divided they run
VenEconomy: Growth, employment and falsehoods
Scott Sullivan: Clinton, McCain and the Albanians
VenEconomy: One failure after another
Gustavo Coronel: PDVSA: Ramirez versus Ramirez
VenEconomy: It takes two to fight…
VenEconomy: The collapse of PDVSA of all trades
Jeroen van der Veer: Two energy futures
Scott Sullivan: North Korea Letter
Joel Brinkley: Bolivian leader takes a page from Chavez
Scott Sullivan Huckabee, Ortega and Iran
Reynold Benjamin: Grenada must not be bullied
VenEconomy:Identifying with the enemy
The Washington Post: Ally to Kidnappers
VenEconomy: It’s time for the foreign exchange wolf
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
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