PDVSA
Feb 13 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

This can be described as the battle between nationalization and privatization, between national interest and transnational authority, oil supplier’s countries and the non-oil suppliers and Venezuelan pride and US hegemony. While rising oil prices is...

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