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2005

2006

What Comes Next for Venezuela?



By Greg Morsbach - story

Hugo Chávez's Plans

Hugo Chávez


By Niko Kyriakou with Martin Markovits

Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections earlier this month shows that the self-styled socialist's controversial leadership and big social spending have genuinely won over Venezuela's poor majority. - story - Previous stories

Chávez, corruption and the OAS
(a second memo to the OAS)

Alejandro Balart

OAS Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza
with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez

By Gustavo Coronel

In March 1996 the Organization of American States adopted the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. Ten years later it seems painfully apparent that this instrument has not remedied the high levels of corruption prevailing among its member states.- story - Previous stories

Chavez's dynamic speeches connect

By John Otis

Unlike the Venezuela's aloof leaders of the past, President Hugo Chavez combines humor and personal anecdotes with stinging denunciations of the rich to connect to the country's poor.- story - Previous stories

What comes next for Venezuela?

By Greg Morsbach - story

Ballots Under a Totalitarian Democracy

By Luis Fleischman - story

Eight years of Chavez: a quick
but complete balance sheet
From vcrisis.com

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans jammed a major highway Saturday to show their support for opposition's only presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, vowing to vote the incumbent President Hugo Chavez out of office in Dec. 3 elections.

By Daniel Duquenal - story - Previous stories

Lukoil: The Next Oil Superpower?
Lukoil's Alekperov: A New Global Giant

peoples.ru

Vagit Alekperov, president of Lukoil

By David A. Andelman and Heidi Brown - story

 

Digging Up Canadian Dirt in Colombia

Mining village

By Chris Arsenault - story

 

Peak Oil: Investor Strategies for Energy Transition

Alberta, Canada. A man stands in a giant scoop,
Athabasca tar sands processing facility.

By Andrew McKillop - story

 

The North Korean nightmare

Azmi Bishara

By Azmi Bishara - story

 

Radioactive Nationalism

Christopher Morris/VII/Time

By Peter Maass - story

Colombia's Integration Into Plan Puebla Panama

By Fernando Arellano Ortiz - story

 

Chávez, Stiglitz and other Populists

By Gustavo Coronel - story

Really, Really Cheap Oil

By Christopher Helman - story

Cuba and China

NYT

Firms from China will be drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba.

By Daniel P. Erikson and Adam Minson- story

 

Mexico: Is the Election Finally Over?

AP/Alexander Meneghini

Mexico's President-elect Felipe Calderon

By Geri Smith/Business Week

With fraud ruled out in July's vote, Calderón is looking presidential. Job One? Dealing with a divided country—and a rival who won't concede* - story

 

High Stakes Poker in the Crude Oil Market

By Gary Dorsch - story

 

The World According to China

By James Taub - story - Previous stories

Bridging the Energy Gap through
Interdependence and Innovation

By Rex W. Tillerson - story - Previous stories

 

OPEC’s Discounts On Heavy Crude Oil:
Is A New Policy Instrument Taking Shape?

By Bassam Fattouh

Earlier this year in Caracas, OPEC announced that it would leave its production quota unchanged. - story

 

Interview with : Secretary Condoleezza Rice

ABCNEWS.com

Condoleezza Rice on "This Week."

By ABC's This Week With George Stephanopooulos

Rice on Middle East, Civil War in Iraq.
Peace push between Lebanon-Israel, but there's trouble in Iraq - story

2005’s Lessons From The Oil Market

By A. F. Alhajji

All predictions made at end-2003 and early-2004 regarding oil prices, world oil demand, and world oil production were wrong by a large margin. For example, at end-2003, the IEA projected world demand in 2004 to be 79.6mn b/d. - story

The Way We Live Now: Ballots and Bullets

Joseph Barrak/AFP – GI

By Noha Feldman - story

A Comment on “The First Law of Petropolitics”,
by Thomas Friedman

By Gustavo Coronel - story - Previous stories

Oil Prices and the World Economy

By Andrew McKillop - story - Previous stories

 

Boom in Ethanol reshapes economy of heartland

AP /Kiichiro Sato

An E85 fuel pump is shown, at the Ohio Department of Agriculture in Columbus, Ohio.

By Alexei Barrionuevo/NYT - story - Previous stories

Nuclear power's 'renaissance'?



By Joyce Howard Price - story

Global Energy Security – An Elusive Target

science@nasa

Image shows global heat energy

By Manouchehr Takin . - story

Hugo Chavez is in clear violation of
the Inter American Democratic Charter

By Gustavo Coronel- story

The Axis of Oil

By Sean Brodrick - story

 

Blame game: Just who is the oil-price villain, anyway?




By Lee Davidson - story

Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq

By Joseph R. Biden Jr. amd leslie H. Gelb - story

 

Global Natural Gas Reserves – A Heuristic Viewpoint (Part 1 & 2 of 2)

By Rafael Sandrea

Part 1 – demonstrates the applicability of the logistic decline model to appraise proven conventional natural gas reserves in six of the world’s largest producing gas fields. The analysis is then extended to six major gas producing countries.- story - Previous stories

Global Natural Gas Reserves – A Heuristic Viewpoint / (Part 1 Of 2)

By Rafael Sandrea - story

 

Plenary Remarks at World Mines Ministries Forum Toronto, Canada, March 3, 2006

John G. Ruggie

By John G. Ruggie - story - Previous stories

 

Mexico: An Ally in the Balance


By Richard R. Loomis and Susan Salter - story - Previous stories

Afterthoughts : Military Radicalism in Venezuela: Lessons for Philippines

By Walden Bello - story - Previous stories

Oil Sands Could Sink Oil Imports

By Ken Silverstein - story

The Crisis of the Viaduct in Venezuela:
Crisis in a development model and its illusions of power

Viaduct 1 at the main highway between Caracas - La Guaira

By Frank Bracho - story

 

South American Pipeline Wars

By Bill Weinberg - story

Furthering Democracy in Mexico

By Enrique Krauze/ From Foreign Affairs - story

Iraq: After Withdrawal, Engagement

Anthony Russo/NYT


By Andrew Erdmann - story - Previous story

Federations: States Punching Above Their Weight - Is South America Next?

By Thomas Muirhead - story

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