Chavez' plan to sale CITGO and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Vcrisis ^ | 06.02.05 | Aleksander Boyd

[alekboyd]

London 03.02.05 | My involvement in this business of writing and reporting the crisis of Venezuela started in October 2002 when I learned that Hugo Chavez had been invited by Oxford's Center for Socio Legal Studies to give a conference, as a guest speaker, in a human rights seminar. At a latter date I found out that the convener of the seminar and visiting fellow of the said center, William F. Pepper, received a handsome payment of $137.527, 42 from the Venezuelan government via the Venezuelan Information Office in Washington DC. I was astounded by the discovery that a visiting scholar to one of Oxford University's colleges could be so easily, and cheaply I must add, bribed by Hugo Chavez.

My attention has turned now to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES). With the precedent aforementioned ever daunting me, I have started investigating a couple of individuals that have done/are doing research in that Institute and currently sit in the board of directors of PDVSA, namely Bernard Mommer and Juan Carlos Boué.

[trek]

Look out below. Thugo Chavez is getting ready to nationalize PDVSA. Pulling PDVSA assets out of the US is designed to prevent the victimized companies from attaching these assets in the courts.

[livius]

You're probably right. Hugo has been incredibly emboldened by something of late. Possibly it's the adoring support he's getting from the European left, or the fact that we have simply ignored him for so long that he feels he's getting a free pass.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He'll have to sell them first. That may take a while.

[Mr. C]

Personally I thing it's time we pounded this JackA$$ and his Cuban buddy into the ground, permanently. If the rest of the world doesn't like it then too bad, they don't care about us or our security so why should we care what they think?

[RedWhiteBlue]

LOL