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Saturday's
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2007

Saturday
Lagniappe

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

Chávez Faces Challenge From Former Comrade

By José Córdoba/WSJ- story

Peru : Texas Firm Bets on it

By Bob Davies/WSJ- story

Interview with Andrey Kuzyaev,
Vice President of LUKOIL

Lukoil

Andrey Kuzyaev

By Oil of Russia Magazine - story

Defeat for Hugo Chávez
The wind goes out of the revolution

By The Economist

Background- story

Oil's Bloody Secrets in Ecuador and Bolivia (4)

Oil and GAS FIRE at a Repsol-Skanska field

By Agneta Enström - story

Civilizing” the Ecuadorian Amazon: Colonial Corporatism (III)

Oil fires on indigenous land in the Amazon

By Agneta Enström - story

Destruction and Corruption: The Jungle
Adventures of an Oil Company in Ecuador (II)

Local people clean up the mess that companies leave

By Agneta Enström - story

Ecuador: Swedish Construction Versus Indigenous Survival in the Amazon (I)

Waorani people protest against the oil exploration

By Agneta Enström - story

Venezuela’s gas prices remain low, but the political costs may be rising

THE HAVES A Hummer display at an
auto show in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.

By Simon Romero - story

Chile’s Energy Crisis: No Magical Solution

By Jeremy Martin - story

Venezuelan Oil – The Unfulfilled Promise

By Luis A. Pacheco - story

Gore: Award Puts Focus on Global Warming

By Seth Borenstein and Lisa Leff - story

''The E.P.R. Targets Mexico's Energy Industry''

By The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) - story

Future in a Fuel Cell

By Robert Campbell's Fuel Ghoul- story

Venezuela: Strategies of an Authoritarian Petrostate

By Gustavo Coronel- story - previous stories

“ Think Beyond Petroleum”

By E. Ralph Hostetter - story

Interview with gas expert Diego González
“ In Venezuela, we continue thinning out the leaves”

Paulo Pérez Zambrano/El Universal

In the opinion of Diego González, no progress
has been made in the gas business as expected

By Marianna Parraga - story

Sources of Energy Consumption to 2030

By Oliver L Campbell - story

A Pipe Dream for Chavez?

By Peter Wilson - story

Brazil's energy policy
Scarcity in the midst of surplus

Corbis

By The Economist - story

Cold snap prompts Chile to seek
gas deal with old foe Bolivia

Jose Luis Quintana/Reuters

Bolivia: Chilean Minister of Energy Marcelo Tokman walked with Bolivian counterpart Carlos Villegas in La Paz on July 30. Tokman discussed future gas sales by Bolivia to Chile.

By Matthew Malinowski - story

Bankrolling Morales's social initiatives, Chávez steers Bolivia from Washington
Populism For a Price

The Washington Post / P.Goodman

La Paz, Bolivia

By Peter S. Goodman - story

Energy Diplomacy and the Crossroads in South American Unification

By Eduardo Gudynas - story

"Energy Independence" is a Pipedream

By Clinton J. Woods and William F. Collins - story

Comercialization of Liquified Petroleum Gas ("LPG") in Ecuador

By Dario G. Lamanna - story

Bolivian Government Takes Control of Two Oil Refineries
The struggle for genuine community control and worker management continues

Bolivian president Evo Morales

By Roberto Antezana - story

Religious answers to political problems

By Claude Salhani - story

Revolution in Venezuela?

By Joaquín Villalobos - story

The Real Issue: Security of Supply

By Curtis D. Burton- story

The petrostate revisited
The petrostate that was and the petrostate that is

By Francisco Toro- story

Russia tries to burn BP

By Dominic O’Connell - story

Nationalization – A Plan for World Domination

By David J. Jonsson - story

Chile: Hydroelectricity at a Price

Protest against dams along the Baker River in Chilean Patagonia. Coalición Ciudadana por AYSÉN, Reserva de Vida

By Benjamin Witte.- story

Oil company accused of dumping waste in Amazon

By Andrew Gumbel

A US oil company has been accused of contaminating an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it and its successor company have drilled for oil for the past 32 years, creating misery for the local Achuar people and widespread lead and cadmium poisoning. - story - Previous stories

The Energy Challenge
A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn

By Matthew L. Wald and Alexei Barrionuevo- story - Previous stories

Gustavo Dudamel and Jose A. Abreu:
Venezuelan classical music comes of age

By Gustavo Coronel- story - Previous stories

Bolivia’s Gas Problems

By Aaron Luoma - story

From reform to reconversion: Is something fishy?

By Ana María Di Leo F. - story

Gas in the Face

Illustration / Christophe Vorlet

A rumored 'gas OPEC' could wield the threat of a supply cutoff
as a geopolitical weapon. But unlike oil, the economies of
gas limits the power of producer nations. -Boston Globe.