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	<title>What&#039;s Next Venezuela? &#187; Francisco Toro</title>
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		<title>In Anti-Business Venezuela, U.S. Companies Carry an Added Burden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Toro of CaracasChronicles
Does Venezuela single out U.S. companies seeking to do business there for worse-than-usual treatment?
At first glance, it might seem like a churlish question. After all, Venezuela ranks 172nd out of 183 countries &#8211; and dead last in Latin America &#8211; in the World Bank&#8217;s Ease of Doing Business Report.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Investment in Venezuela: Mission Almost Impossible</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/expropriation/foreign-investment-in-venezuela-mission-almost-impossible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://en.whatsnextvenezuela.com/?p=2739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Toro of CaracasChronicles
With the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela might appear like a natural candidate to attract major Direct Foreign Investment funds. But, as a direct result of Mr. Chávez’s policy of marginalizing private sector capital, Foreign Direct Investment flows actually slammed into reverse in 2009 &#8211; the latest]]></description>
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		<title>PDVSA Iran Sanction Busting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://en.whatsnextvenezuela.com/?p=2693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Toro of CaracasChronicles
In January 2011, the oil tanker Aspasis &#8211; flying a Barbados flag &#8211; shipped 271,000 barrels of gasoline from the Curaçao refinery of PDVSA (Venezuela’s oil company) to Iran in contravention of both U.S. and international sanctions. That is the allegation that U.S. Energy Department officials have officially informed Venezuela]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela&#8217;s Government Stranglehold</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/power-abuse/venezuelas-goverment-stranglehold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://en.whatsnextvenezuela.com/?p=2629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Toro of CaracasChronicles
Venezuela&#8217;s increasingly restrictive foreign currency exchange control system is becoming a key instrument in the Chávez government&#8217;s bid to establish hegemonic control over Venezuelan society. By giving the government a stranglehold over the country&#8217;s economic life, currency controls have become a prime mechanism in crafting a new economic elite fully]]></description>
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		<title>Expropriation and Punishment</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/expropriation/expropriation-and-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers Face Intimidation and Reprisals in the Wake of Agroisleña Takeover
by Francisco Toro (@CaracasChron)
 
As soon as he heard that President Chávez had issued an expropriation decree for Agroisleña &#8211; a major agricultural extension service firm providing seed, fertilizer and credit to more than thousands of growers &#8211; José Rocha knew his life was]]></description>
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		<title>Pinching Polar on Both Ends of the Supply Chain</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/expropriation/pinching-polar-on-both-ends-of-the-supply-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to control a company that&#8217;s too popular to take over
by Francisco Toro
President Chávez has a problem. Amid his continuing push to nationalize as much of the Venezuelan economy as possible, he&#8217;s finding that some of the firms he&#8217;d intended for a state takeover are widely popular with Venezuelans. Chief among them is]]></description>
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		<title>El Encantado Humboldt</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/private-property/el-encantado-humboldt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a particular perversity to the story of El Encantado Humboldt - the large, nearly finished housing development in Caracas chavismo decided to expropriate last week.]]></description>
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		<title>The Workers vs. Their Paradise</title>
		<link>https://www.whatsnextvenezuela.com/expropriation/the-workers-vs-their-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Toro

CaracasChronicles.com

In the wake of President Chávez's to nationalize the Venezuelan operations of U.S. bottle-maker Owens-Illinois, the firms' Venezuelan workers spent most of the week protesting outside its factories in Valera and Valencia.]]></description>
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