Schrödinger's Bond
Did Chávez have his “you didn’t build that” moment after the Amuay disaster when he said that, accident or no accident, “as some philosopher whose name I don’t...
Economy
#AccountabilityFail
After recounting the whole sordid series of fuck-ups that have plagued PDVSA over the last nine years, from Maletingate and PudreVAL to Illaramendi and the Guarapiche Spill, The...
PDVSA's oil spills go global
Just right after the Amuay disaster, PDVSA has another problem in its hands: this time in Ah, Oh, Curaçao. An oil spill from the Isla Refinery, currently handled by...
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
Here’s my run-down on the Amuay Explosion for the IHT.
Wind power à la Bolivariana
Days before the explosion of Amuay, Paraguana and other parts of Falcon State had been suffering some prolonged blackouts. CORPOELEC didn’t point to an animal this time, they simply refused...
El Reventón IV
A few days ago, I was privileged to attend a screening of El Reventón I and II, two documentaries by Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Oteyza. Using archival footage from...
Twenty Questions for Rafael Ramírez
Here’s a mental exercise for you. Imagine just for a second that PDVSA was a properly run oil firm with an adequate worker safety culture and well-developed mechanisms...
An Exhaustive Investigation
This morning, President Chávez promised an exhaustive investigation into the causes of last night’s fatal blast at Amuay Refinery. The sun hasn’t even set yet, and that investigation...
Amuay's Maintenance Record Under the Spotlight
As you try to make sense of last night’s huge explosion in Amuay, do bear in mind that just this April, the indispensible Venepiramides was already on the...
Amuay Daylight Photos Start to Emerge - Yowza!
Last night’s huge blast at Amuay Refinery in Paraguaná is quickly turning into an object lesson in the impossibility of controlling information in the Twitter era. As the...
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