Author Archive for José Orozco
China’s Buying Spree: Venezuela – A Match Made in Globalization
CARACAS — Four years ago, when President Hugo Chávez delighted his Chinese hosts by announcing Venezuela would boost its crude oil exports to one million barrels a day by 2012, many industry analysts considered the plan a costly pipe dream.
Outlook 2011: Venezuela Bogs Down in Recession
CARACAS — For South America’s leading oil producer, the steady rise in petroleum prices has failed to deliver economic recovery as so often in the past.
The Answers – Teodoro Petkoff
At 78, Teodoro Petkoff is no longer the revolutionary firebrand of his youth – yet he remains one of Venezuela’s most outspoken leftist figures and one of President Hugo Chávez’s most vocal opponents. The one-time guerrilla once escaped imprisonment by climbing out of his military hospital bed and using a rope to descend seven stories. [...]
Ask the Concierge: Gran Meliá in Caracas
Tips from concierge July Fonda at the Gran Meliá in Caracas, Venezuela. Fonda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador but moved to Venezuela at the age of five. She started out five years ago as a receptionist at the Meliá, and has been a concierge at the hotel for nearly three years.
With Oil Prices on the Rise Venezuela Set to Rebound in 2010
Now the nascent financial recovery in industrialized nations appears set to pull Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy out of its slump, keeping it from becoming collateral damage in the global meltdown.
Financier of the Year: Enrique García – Banker to Latin America
Banker to Latin America for more than three decades, Enrique García is an advocate of less government and a booster of private enterprise.
Social Responsibility CEO of the Year: Lorenzo Mendoza – Compassionate Industrialist
Personal tragedy forged Lorenzo Mendoza’s values. When his father, Lorenzo Mendoza Quintero, died suddenly at age 55, his mother was forced to take over the family business, Empresas Polar. It helped prepare her son to take the helm of Venezuela’s largest food and beer producer 12 years later.
Is the Party Over for Venezuela’s PDVSA?
Venezuela claims to have 172 billion barrels of reserves, but some oil analysts peg the figure at 99 billion and are more concerned with PDVSA’s declining output.
