VOL. XLIV

No. 17

23-April-2001

Venezuelan Oil Politics At The Crossroads

by Bernard Mommer

The following article by Bernard Mommer was originally published on the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) web site http:associnst.ox.ac.uk/energy. Dr Mommer is a Research Fellow at OIES and at St Antonys College, Oxford.

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Hugo Chávez took over the Presidency of Venezuela on 2 February 1999. At that time world petroleum markets were in deep disarray. Since then the situation has...