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“Hugo Chávez and his Great Trans-Caribbean Gas Pipeline”

por Adriana Vega Again the President of Venezuela, holding on his left arm his Bolivarian Revolution,  visit yesterdays President Leonel Fernández  from Dominican Republic to offer a 10,000 barrel-a-day refinery, a project currently awaiting environmental analysis. His intention is to extend the Venezuela-to-Caribbean pipeline as an effort to revert $20 billion freeze by Brazil opposition to extend the gas pipeline trough the Amazon rain forest and complete his “Great Gas Pipeline of the South”. He claims Venezuela's restoration of the Cienfuegos refinery in Cuba will complete in November. The plan is to fund a refinery in Ecuador allowing the South Americans nations to export refined products to China and other Asian destinations. After finishing his conference in Dominica … [Read more...]

“Hugo Chávez and his Great Trans-Caribbean Gas Pipeline”

por Adriana Ramos   Again the President of Venezuela, holding on his left arm his Bolivarian Revolution,  visit yesterdays President Leonel Fernández  from Dominican Republic to offer a 10,000 barrel-a-day refinery, a project currently awaiting environmental analysis. His intention is to extend the Venezuela-to-Caribbean pipeline as an effort to revert $20 billion freeze by Brazil opposition to extend the gas pipeline trough the Amazon rain forest and complete his “Great Gas Pipeline of the South”. He claims Venezuela's restoration of the Cienfuegos refinery in Cuba will complete in November. The plan is to fund a refinery in Ecuador allowing the South Americans nations to export refined products to China and other Asian destinations. After finishing his conference in … [Read more...]

CAMPAIGN GOALS

By Adriana Ramos It’s difficult for any candidate of a Presidency, as powerful as United States, to keep his/her original campaign goals. When being interviewed, many questions are presented to them regarding various issues.  Original goals suddenly are lost or diluted in dialogues and debates.  TV and newspaper reporters keep us inform of the various interviews, conferences or events that the candidates attend. They even report on the faults of each candidate and they highlight moments showing when the candidates are ill prepared to response to the barrage of questions being imposed on them. As a voter it is hard to read between the lines, ignore all the noise and be able to determine if the candidate is running on a liberal or conservative platform, let alone try to track all of … [Read more...]

To Vote, a civic responsibility

Adriana Ramos Last week some of the Candidates for the presidency, as well as some Senator and Congressman, decide to confront the real public in “Your Tube” debate, call "Citizen Tube". Not only because the politicians have realized that this new Generation is completely tech-online, but because the statistics bring high ratings to their future voters, now each one of the candidates have their own "You Tube" propaganda media. Many of the questions the general public address, were the real problems the country lives today, how to activated the economy, how we can keep the war in Iraq, if the Country should impeach the President Bush and Cheney, and so much important real problems from real people, Teachers, Parents, Accountants, Secretaries, Students, Farmers, etc. But the last … [Read more...]

Olvido

por Adriana Ramos Relaciones Internacionales Los pequeños placeres que una persona adquiere con los años, son difíciles de olvidar, como leer un buen libro, ir a ver las películas favoritas, tomar un buen vino, acompañar a un amigo en una tarde lluviosa. Este placer mío de escribir lo había dejado en el olvido ese compromiso que me hice a mi misma, de escribir, escribir, escribir. Sólo por el simple hecho podría tomarme menos de 30 minutos, unos pensamientos o unas cuantas letras, sin embargo nuestras obligaciones diarias nos apartan de esos placeres. Heme aquí, tratando de retomar el tiempo que estos meses me han llevado lejos de este rincón, y que nuevamente recuerdo al recibir un correo de una amiga… Grandes cambios han sucedido mientras pasan los días. Intentos de … [Read more...]