industryterm:foreign oil

Tout ça, c’est la faute aux Cubains,… et de leur entrisme sournois de longue date.
(j’ai pas tout lu,…)

Venezuelan Democracy Was Strangled by Cuba – Foreign Policy
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/14/venezuelan-democracy-was-strangled-by-cuba

Decades of infiltration helped ruin a once-prosperous nation.
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During the following years, especially after Chávez’s death in 2013, Havana would continue to exert its influence over the South American nation. Cuba has become critical to keeping Maduro’s regime in place in an “oil for repression” scheme in which Havana helped the socialist leader in his power struggle with the opposition in exchange for fuel, contributing to the country’s political, social, and economic crisis today. Last year, Reuters reported that Venezuela had bought nearly $440 million worth of foreign oil and shipped it to Cuba to fulfill its commitments to Havana. The Caribbean country, along with Russia, is one of the few backers holding off the abrupt collapse of the current Venezuelan regime. The destiny of Venezuela’s democracy could lie in Cuba’s hands. A far economically and militarily stronger country has ended up ideologically conquered—and politically devastated—by a far smaller and poorer one.

Mexican government accelerates drive to privatize state oil industry - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/05/mexi-d05.html

Mexican government accelerates drive to privatize state oil industry
By Bill Van Auken
5 December 2013

Encircled by thousands of police and nine-foot-high metal security fences, Mexico’s congress is expected to soon enact constitutional amendments allowing the partial privatization of the state energy firm, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).

Tuesday brought the legislature one step closer to the historic scrapping of what has long been seen as a key gain of the Mexican revolution—the nationalization of petroleum resources and expulsion of the foreign oil companies, which had rode roughshod over the country’s economic and political life.

#mexique #pétrole #énergie #privatisation

Barack Obama Bets on Next Generation of Biofuels Industry
►http://www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/world-hunger/hunger-and-the-globalized-system-of-trade-and-food-production-/50598-barack-obama-bets-on-next-generation-of-biofuels-industry.html?i

During a campaign tour in the Midwest, Obama announced plans to spend up to $510m building biofuels refineries. These refineries will produce fuel from corn, wood chips, or grasses for the US navy and “[reduce] America’s dependence on foreign oil,” said Obama. Like corn ethanol, another government-backed biofuel, investment in these types of biofuels could further constrict food supplies and hike global food prices.

#énergies