PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Feb.2026, Words: 72) — Venezuela’s attorney general Tarek William Saab Halabi has resigned his position. This, according to initial details revealed on 25 Feb. 2026 by Jorge RodrĂguez in a broadcast on VTV. And, the new attorney general is Larry Daniel Defoe […]
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Venezuela Arrests Former Oil Minister Tellechea
(Reuters, 21.Oct.2024) — Venezuelan authorities have arrested former industry and oil minister Pedro Tellechea, Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday, the latest high-profile detention connected to management of Venezuela’s sanctioned oil industry. In a statement on Instagram, Saab said Tellechea had been arrested in the early hours of Sunday […]
Chevron Stayed In Venezuela Long After Rivals Quit
(Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Bradley Olson, 8.Nov.2018) — For nearly a century, Chevron Corp. has weathered dictatorships, coups and nationalization drives to keep pumping oil in Venezuela. But recently, executives at the last U.S. oil major in the country have debated whether it may be time to get out, […]
New Corruption Scheme Revealed at PDVSA
(Prensa Latina, 19.Sep.2018) — The Public Prosecutor”s Office (MP) has revealed today a new corruption scheme in the state-run Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), which has caused losses of 18,500,000 dollars to the main industry of the country. In a press conference from the MP headquarters in Caracas, Attorney General Tarek […]
How Venezuela Gets Plundered
(DW.com, Andreas Knobloch, 6.Aug.2018) – A money-laundering scandal involving Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA could turn into a problem for a Swiss bank. A German banker recently affiliated with the lender has been arrested in Miami. When it comes to the causes behind the severe economic and supply crisis in […]