08/28 Closing Prices / revised 08/30/2026 13:56 GMT | 08/27 OPEC Basket Price $87.31 +$0.92cents  | 08/28 Mexico Basket (MME)  $79.90  +$0.35 cents | 01/01-07/31 2026 Promedio Venezuela Basket (Merey) $ 74.4  +$1.2  |  08/28  NYMEX Light Sweet Crude $ 83.40 –$0.13 cents | 08/28 ICE Brent  $89.31 –$0.39 cents |  08/28 RBOB Gasoline NY Harbor  $3.0480/gal  ‑$0.0022 cents | 08/28 Heating Oil NY Harbor $2.1178 per gallon +$0.0076 cents | 08/28 NYMEX Natural Gas  $2.705/MMBtu ‑$0.048 cents | 08/28 Baker Hughes Rig Count (Oil & Gas U.S.) = 588 / 0 | 08/28 USD – MXN/USD 16.9712 MXN/USD (data live) 08/28 EUR – USD  1.1643 USD (data live)  09/01 US/Bs. (Bolivar) Bs.794,99170000 (data BCV) (crypto-parallel Bs. 932–938 por USD -estimated) Source: CME/MarketWatch/Reuters/ Zelle/ crypto-parallel  (Binance P2P)

Evan Ellis on Latin America and the Caribbean:  Panama’s Popular Discontent is Still Simmering – (video)

Watch video: My April 14, 2023 presentation (in Spanish) on the Voice of America program “Foro” with Gonzalo Abarco

I would also like to share links to my latest from my weekly on the John Batchelor Show, from his special ongoing series on Latin America, The New World Report. You may find these weekly podcasts to be a useful current analysis of key events in the region.

The latest episodes include:

  • Paraguay, Part 1: April 26: https://audioboom.com/posts/8289039-1-2-newworldreport-paraguay-votes-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army-war

  • Paraguay Part 2: April 26: https://audioboom.com/posts/8289041-2-2-newworldreport-paraguay-votes-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army-wa

  • Colombia and Venezuela: April 26: https://audioboom.com/posts/8289042-newworldreport-venezuela-rehabilitation-in-colombia-latin-american-research-professor-evan-el

  • Argentina: April 26: https://audioboom.com/posts/8289044-newworldreport-argentina-suffers-crushing-inflation-for-the-election-latin-american-research

Website for all Publications:

As always, at my professional website you can access the present, and all of my past publications, as well as select webinars and podcasts:

  • https://revanellis.com/

Book on China-Latin America:

My latest book, China Engages Latin America: Distorting Development and Democracy, is available through my publisher Palgrave-Macmillan, at:

  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96049-0

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R. Evan Ellis, PhD , Latin America Research Professor, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute @REvanEllis, https://revanellis.com

EnergiesNet.com 05 01 2025

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