Saturday's
Lagniappe

2008

December OPEC Meeting: Shock
Therapy for Declining Demand

By John Brodman

Largest Cut in History. OPEC met in Oran, Algeria on December 17, 2008, and decided to cut 4.2 million barrels per day (mmbd) from their actual September production level of 29.045 for the OPEC 11 subject to production quotas, effective January 1. This amounts to an additional cut of approximately 2.4 mmbd from the October production quota level of 27.308, and a cut of 2.9 mmbd from estimated November production, if the cuts are fully implemented. - story - previous stories

Delivering tomorrow's oil

FPSO

By the Total Group - story

Taking Care of Our Planet (II)

By Oliver L Campbell - story

Multi-polar world, more friends for US

By Andres Oppenheimer- story

U.S. 'change' and Latin America

By Jeremy Martin and Roger Tissot - story

Brazil as a new kind of oil giant

Chantal James/Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Petrobras's P-51 platform – the first
semisubmersible platform built entirely in Brazil

By Sara Miller Llana

As its peers in the region see their oil production slipping Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras is entering a new era as the region's silent giant. - story - previous stories

More Orinoco Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Go on Sale: Good or Bad ?

By Gustavo Coronel - story

A Letter to the United States :

"I speak to The United States"

Mt Rushmore is the shrine of U.S.democracy, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The presidents were selected on the basis of what each symbolized. George Washington represents the struggle for independence, Thomas Jefferson the idea of government by the people. Abraham Lincoln for his ideas on equality and the permanent union of the states, and Theodore Roosevelt for the 20th century role of the United States in world affairs.

By Frank Bracho - story

Occidental Truth

Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism, by Ibn Warraq

Reviewed by Daniel Mandel - story

Energy Security In Mexico: Problems and Implications

By Jude Clemente - story

New Interview With Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

By Addison Wiggin /I.O.U.S.A – One Nation / Daily Wealth - story

The cold war over oil involves Chavez, China and Russia

By Irwin Greenstein - story

Like Venezuela, so Ecuador?

Reuters/Jorge Silva

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) and his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa visit a facility at oil rich Orinoco's belt near southern Venezuela's city of Puerto Ordaz August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

By Alejandro Pena Esclusa - story

Can OPEC Curb The Oil Roller Coaster?

By Oxford Analytica - story

Christopher Columbus Arrived 516 Years Late to the U.S.

By Hector J. Hereter - story

An Interview: Alaska's 'Frustrated' Governor Palin
On Our 'Nonsensical' Energy Policy

Reuters/ Robert Galbraith

Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks to reporters at the Republican Governor's Association gathering at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 4, 2008

By Investors' Business Daily - story

A funny kind of reward

Petrobras/Felipe Dana
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Petrobras plataform PR 52 Maduro

By The Economist - story s

Russia's neighbours go their own way

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Ukraine's leader (R) went to Tbilisi to back President Saakashvili

By Bridget Kendall - story - previous stories

Is Oil Against World Economy?

By Elie Habalian Dumat - story

Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?

By James Suggett- story

Scraping The Barrel

By Michael Casey - story

Going global

An overseas posting provides an opportunity to broaden personal horizon

By Lynda Armstrong- story

Lukoil in Venezuela: Cronicle of Progress

Lukoil

Vagit Alekperov, President of LUKOIL, met with
Rafael Ramirez, Minister of Energy of Venezuela and PDVSA

By Pavel Bogomolov- story

The fjords of Macuro

By Juan Cristobal- story

Curtis Mallet's Oil Baron

Deborah Feingold

George Kahale. Curtis, Mallet’s managing partner brings in $25 million a year advising some of the most resource-rich—and reviled—governments in the world.

By Daphne Eviatar / The American Lawyer- story

Venezuelans Losing Vision of
Prosperity Under President Chavez

Chavez go to Cuba

By David Adams - story

The Nigerian Rebel Who 'Taxes' Your Gasoline

Dave Clark /AFP

A Nigerian rebel displays his weapon along the Escravros River in Nigeria.

By Will Connors - story

From Beirut to Bolivia
Ballots and Bullets

Jnoubiyeh

By Conn Hallinan - story

Time Running Out for Energy in Mexico

Cantarell, Mexico's top oil field is declining rapidly

By Marcela Sanchez - story

WSJ Further Exposes Chávez's Deep Collaboration with FARC:
More From INTERPOL May15th!

FARC guerrilla commander Luis Edgar Devia Silva, better known
by his alias Raul Reyes with his computer.

By Pedro Miguel Burelli - story

What Is Fascism?

By John T. Flynn

Mussolini became premier in October 1922. With the innumerable arguments about the march on Rome or with the story of the violent, lawless, and outrageous tactics he used to come to power we are not concerned here. That history has been told many times. Our business is to see the use he made of his power to fashion a new form of society. - story - previous stories

Argentina's Hydrocarbons Export Regime

Argentina's oil discover, Dec. 13 1907,
at Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.

By Dario G. Lamanna y Dario E. Arias - story - previous stories

How Green is the Latin American Left?
A Look at Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia

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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez (L) and Ecuador's Rafael Correa

By Daniel Denvir and Thea Riofrancos - story

America's Iran Gamble and how Iran is benefiting from it

By Adam Lambert - story

The Rising Price of Coal

By Kelpie Wilson - story

Cheap Oil Is Over: Kiss the Gas-Guzzling
NASCAR Era Good-Bye

"Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences
of Motorized Recreation" (Chelsea Green, 2007).

By James Howard Kunstler - story

How an Iranian 'Oil Bourse' Threatens the American Empire

By Len Har- story

On the warpath

Venezuelan troops

By The Economist- story

The World Gets Heavier
High prices and growing demand put global focus on unconventional oil plays

petroleumequities.com

By Darrell Stonehouse - story

Gustavo The Great
Bob Simon profiles for CBS 60 Minutes one of the
biggest stars in classical music, Gustavo Dudamel

Globovision

Gustavo Dudamel at work

By Bob Simon - story

A dark underbelly of mass graves and electoral fraud

By Isabel Hilton - story

The Venezuelan Oil Industry in Chaos:
An Unreliable Supplier to the U.S.

By Gustavo Coronel- story

For Peru's Indians, Lawsuit Against Big Oil Reflects a New Era
Outsiders and high-tech tools help document firms' impact

Laris Karklis - WP - Jan 31, 08

By Kelly Hearn- story

Draft Program and Principles of the
United Socialist Party of Venezuela

By Presidential Commission to Organize the PSUV - story

Brazil’s Oil Find, its Energy Needs and Exports

Petrobras Ship Paulo Arthur

By Oliver L Campbell- story

The Ghost Of Simón Bolívar

"There is Bolívar in the sky of the Americas, watchful and frowning ...
because what he left undone remains undone to this very day."
Chavez at the oath to overturn the previous political order,
in front of the "Saman de Guere" tree, in Maracay.

By Joseph Contreras - story

Has the Era of Cheap Oil and Food Prices Ended?

By Walid Khadduri - story

Can OPEC Curb The Oil Roller Coaster?

Christopher Columbus Arrived 516 Years Late to the U.S.

An Interview: Alaska's 'Frustrated' Governor Palin On Our 'Nonsensical' Energy Policy

A funny kind of reward

Russia's neighbours go their own way

An Interview: Alaska's 'Frustrated' Governor Palin
On Our 'Nonsensical' Energy Policy