Historian of Venezuela’s twentieth-century oil industry. Earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. Co-founder of Red Historia Venezuela, a nonprofit dedicated to digitizing at-risk historical archives and making them available online.
The new energy law opens the sector to foreign investment in unprecedented ways since the 1990s. It might also spark a relationship with transnational companies that is positive for society
The eagerness to court Big Oil while steadfastly ignoring the population’s needs feels like a return to Venezuela a hundred years ago. But history does not repeat itself
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