By Douglas Bolivar, Caracas / Venezuela “Our current production is oscillating between 800,000 and 900,000 barrels per day. In December 2021 we reached a production peak of one million 40 thousand barrels”, confirms Deputy Willian Rodríguez, President of the Hydrocarbons Sub-Commission of the National Assembly of Venezuela. Rodríguez assigns to the workforce of the industry decisive achievements in this goal, ...
The Ukraine crisis was the main item on the European Council’s meeting 30-31st of May, which concluded with some decisions and more debates. Among the agreed measures are: – A sixth package of sanctions against Russia will cover crude oil, as well as petroleum products, delivered from Russia into Member States, with a temporary exception for crude oil delivered by ...
By Douglas Bolivar, Caracas / Venezuela International news are dominated by crisis scenarios, from security situacions over the economic development to the food supplies. A huge global crisis, including increasing inflation numbers are present everywhere – with an exception: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela has passed through years of actually hyperinflation and a sanctions regime, and today is more ...
United World International expert Fabrizio Verde provided an interview to the Iranian daiy newspaper Tehran Times on the global repercussions of the Ukraine conflict. Below we present to our readers the interview as published on Tehran Times. The director of the online newspaper L’antidiplomatico says that the Ukraine war will change the geopolitical order of the world. “What happens in ...
While the Ukraine crisis continues, Washington is trying to increase Western pressure on countries that do not participate in the sanctions against Russia. India is one of these countries that do not join the US-led coalition against Russia, resisting the pressure from the West. With a tradition of the non-alignment movement, India refrained from voting on United Nations resolutions imposing ...
By Douglas Bolivar, Caracas / Venezuela The agenda of what was discussed on March 5 between the Chavista leadership and President Biden’s envoy to Caracas is of absolute ignorance of the country’s political spokesmen, which by default gives credibility to the facts. On March 5, the national government of Venezuela commemorated the ninth year of the death of President Hugo ...
The United States has been trying to isolate Russia and has accelerated its sanctions regime since the start of the military operation in Ukraine. Washington has also tried to rally the world behind its position, harvesting rejection from several countries. One of those is South Africa, with a population of 60 million one of the leading countries of the African ...
Sergey Markov, General Secretary of the Russian – Turkish Public Forum, Director of the Political Studies in Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), a former member of the State Duma and a former Press Secretary for Putin, has told Turkish newspaper Aydınlık that the current situation may be an important opportunity for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). ...
French-drafted statement endorsing the sanctions imposed by the West African regional group ECOWAS against Mali was blocked by Russia and China on the United Nations Security Council. US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who expressed her full support for the sanction decision, also called the UNSC into action. However, the efforts of France and the USA were not ...
Last Sunday, January 9, the West African integration association ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) announced the imposition of sanctions against Mali. ECOWAS justified the sanctions formally with the refusal of the Malian government to hold elections in the country this year. The country’s ruling senior military had asked to postpone the elections until 2025. Sanctions against Mali would ...