Bulletin #8 Energy and Sustainable Development

CLACSO Working Group on Energy and Sustainable Development
Energy and Sustainable Development Bulletin
Year 4 – Number #8 Venezuela, the United States and the dispute over Latin America's natural resources
March 2026

Table of Contents

1. Presentation. The urgent need to rethink Latin America in the new global energy geopolitics
   Esteban Serrani
2. Oil as a weapon of US foreign policy
   Ariela Ruiz Caro
3. The national security strategy of the United States of America and the
   Latin American governments
   Oscar Ugarteche
4. The structural evolution of the US economic sanctions against Venezuela
   Gabriel Cavalcante
5. The unbearable lightness of Peruvian energy policy
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