Erwin Cifuentes is a Contributing Editor for Southern Pulse Info where he focuses on politics, economics and security issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has worked as a writer for The Latin Americanist blog since 2005 and is the social media editor for the website's Twitter page. Erwin is also a graduate of Florida International University, and a member of the Association of Latino Professionals for America along with the Jackie Robinson Foundation Alumni Association.
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Ghana’s economic growth in the second quarter of this year suffered an annual fall of 2.5 percent due to a drop in oil production, according…
A couple days ahead of the informal OPEC meeting in Algiers regarding the stability of oil prices, Algeria has announced its plans to privatize their…
One of the deadliest chapters in the decades-long armed conflict in Colombia will come to a close on Monday following the signing of a peace…
A group of investors led by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will pay US$5.2 billion to purchase 90 percent of a pipeline unit owned by beleaguered…
Falah Al-Amri, Iraq’s governor to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), claimed on Thursday that the time is right for top oil producers to…
Russia’s Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, claimed there are no official plans to cut oil production despite seemingly contradictory information provided by his number 2 man.…
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Mexican finance minister Jose Antonio Meade announced on Thursday that approximately US$5.4 billion in funds for state-run oil firm Pemex will be eliminated from the…
Hurricane Energy announced on Friday that it found a “very significant hydrocarbon column” after initial testing of its 205/21a-7 well located within the UK Continental…
Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra stated that her country would be willing to engage in a joint fossil fuels exploration project with Britain near the…
Demand for energy-related products and services declined even though there are signs of stabilization, according to the United States Federal Reserve’s most recent business activity…
The Nigerian military reported today that they have captured the suspected leader of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a rebel group that has targeted oil…
The White House proposed modernizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as part of a plan that could cost as much as US$2billion, the United States…
Two major Abu Dhabi sovereign funds - International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC) and Mubadala Development Company PJSC – will come together to create an alliance…
Iran’s aim to reach pre-sanction oil production levels could receive a welcome boost according to comments made by a senior official at the National Iranian…
The Libyan navy on 17 August fired shots against a rescue boat run by Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF), which they mistook for oil smugglers, according…
The Chief Energy Adviser at Shell, Wim Thomas, on Monday claimed that the glut in oil supplies that have forced down prices for more than…
The sovereign wealth fund of Qatar (the Qatar Investment Authority) purchased 9.9 percent, or approximately US$622 million, in the firm owning and operating the Empire…