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Oil Diplomacy to the Rescue? Cuban Drilling Off Florida Keys to Begin By End of the Year
For 51 years the U.S. has imposed an economic embargo against Cuba, severely crippling the island’s economy for its effrontery in choosing a socialist path for development, a policy confirmed and intensified in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Now...
OPEC States That Venezuela has World’s Largest Oil Reserves
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a notoriously conservative organization, has stated that Venezuela has world’s largest oil reserves, even exceeding those of OPEC’s top producer, Saudi Arabia.
U.S. – Venezuelan Relations – Just ‘Frozen’ Or Beyond Repair?
According to the U.S. Energy Administration, two months ago the United States total crude oil imports averaged 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), with the top five exporting countries being Canada (2,666 tbpd), Mexico (1,319 tbpd), Saudi Arabia (1,107...
2010- A Decisive Year – Opinion
Deeply rooted in human nature is the desire to see what the future bring us. In ancient times Sybille’s priestess in a cave near Rome interpreted the sacred Sibylline Book to see what the New Year will bring for Rome. Today the desire to know the future...
Can We Make Entertainment Out of Irrationality?
If, as I have suggested, irrationality knows no bounds, can we at least start mining it for its entertainment value? I have to confess that this was my immediate reaction to the following report that just appeared on the BBC News Web site: Venezuelan...
Venezuela’s OAS Representative Says Human Rights Claims a Smear Campaign
Venezuelan opposition groups are seeking to use human rights issues to discredit the government of President Hugo Chávez before the international community, according to Germán Saltrón, Venezuela’s human rights representative to the Organisation...
Venezuela Begins Investigation of Assassination Plot
The Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office has formally started an investigation into an alleged assassination plot against President Hugo Chavez, following recently publicized declarations by a former paramilitary hitman and a former Colombian intelligence...
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Invites Obama to “Peace Dialogue”
During a meeting with U.S. labor union leaders in New York on Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez invited the unionists to participate in the fair trade integration bloc known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), and he invited...
