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Without Institutional Change, Venezuela’s Oil Bonanza Remains Unviable

EnergiesNet — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:58:55 +0000

Sanctions relief, a democratic transition, and deep reforms are essential to recover production. By Francisco Monaldi When President Trump announced the capture of Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, and suggested that American oil giants would swoop in to fix the country’s battered oil infrastructure, it sounded like a straightforward business proposition. After all, Venezuela boasts some of the …

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Trump Declares War on the Judiciary – J. Michael Luttig / NYTimes

EnergiesNet — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:00:45 +0000

Trumps vs. the courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump By J. Michael Luttig President Trump has wasted no time in his second term in declaring war on the nation’s federal judiciary, the country’s legal profession and the rule of law. He has provoked a constitutional crisis with his stunning frontal assault on the …

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OPEC+’s ‘healthy’ crude oil market is an illusion, Trump effect isn’t – Clyde Russell / Reuters

EnergiesNet — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:49:59 +0000

OPEC+ Decision to Increase Oil Production Raises Questions Amid Market Uncertainty Clyde Russell, Reuters LAUNCESTON, Australia EnergiesNet.com 03 05 2025 The OPEC+ group of crude oil exporters justified their decision to increase production by pointing to “the healthy market fundamentals and the positive market outlook.” They must be looking at a completely different market to …

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Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington – Simon Shuster and Brian Bennett / Time (video)

EnergiesNet — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:49:39 +0000

By Simon Shuster and Brian Bennett The standoff at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue was not much of a spectacle. On the first day of February, a handful of men working for Elon Musk had come to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a few blocks from the White House, demanding full access to its headquarters. The agency’s staff refused. …

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Viewpoint: Noboa Seeks More Time to Curb Violence in Ecuador with Reelection Bid – GZERO

EnergiesNet — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:46:31 +0000

Ecuador’s Noboa touts law and order progress as he seeks reelection By GZERO Media Ecuadorians will head to the polls on Feb. 9 to choose their next president against a backdrop of spiraling violence similar to that of the last presidential election in 2023. That was an early vote called by then-President Guillermo Lasso in an attempt …

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China Moves to Space to Dominate the Final Frontier – Didi Kirsten Tatlow/Newsweek

EnergiesNet — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:07:14 +0000

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow China’s ambition to be the world’s greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Here, in a lunar-looking landscape in the South American country, diggers are smoothing a rocky plain beneath an 8,600-foot Andean peak for a new astronomical observatory where Chinese scientists …

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A Sinkhole Is Threatening to Consume Ecuador’s Main Source of Power – P. Millard / S. Kueffner

EnergiesNet — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:02:49 +0000

If a hydroplant responsible for 30% of the nation’s electricity went offline, it would compound an energy crisis already roiling the nation. By Peter Millard and Stephan Kueffner, Bloomberg News Photography and video by Johanna Alarcón for Bloomberg The $3 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric power plant in Ecuador has been a public relations disaster since its …

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Javier Milei: The Unexpected Success of Argentina’s Libertarian Leader – Benjamin N. Gedan/AQ

EnergiesNet — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:51:06 +0000

A look at why Argentina’s libertarian president has outperformed expectations at the one-year mark, with several challenges ahead. Javier Milei Has Surprised Almost Everybody. By Benjamin N. Gedan Decembers in Argentina are often tense, and not just because of the holidays. In 2001, supermarket riots spilled over into broader street violence, forcing two presidents to …

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Assad’s Final Days: Deception and Betrayal Unveiled – Hubbard, Fassihi, Goldbaum and Saad / NYTimes

EnergiesNet — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:35:05 +0000

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. Deception and Betrayal: Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime. By Ben Hubbard, Farnaz Fassihi, Christina Goldbaum and Hwaida Saad.Ben Hubbard, Christina Goldbaum and Hwaida …

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The U.S. wants to triple nuclear power by 2050. Coal could provide a pathway – S. Kimball y G. Cortés

EnergiesNet — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:05:09 +0000

By The planned restart of Three Mile Island is a step forward for nuclear power, but the U.S. needs to deploy new plants to keep up with rising electricity demand, one of the nation’s top nuclear officials said this week. The U.S. needs to at least triple its nuclear fleet to keep pace with demand, …

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Can Venezuela’s opposition find any way to thrive?

EnergiesNet — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:48 +0000

By The Economist In the end the pressure grew too great. On September 7th, six weeks after he won Venezuela’s presidential election in a landslide, Edmundo González fled for exile in Spain. The regime of Nicolás Maduro (pictured) had accused the affable 75-year-old former diplomat of being a “war criminal” and issued a warrant for his …

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Reform or the End of Justice? Mexico Is Split on Plan to Elect Judges – Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and James Wagner

EnergiesNet — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:25:01 +0000

Even as a sweeping proposal to elect nearly 7,000 judges inches toward law, some Mexicans have protested it. Others welcomed the chance to vote in judges. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and James Wagner. Photographs by Marian Carrasquero MEXICO CITY – Outside Mexico’s Senate building on Tuesday, university students wearing masks and dressed as the country’s …

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