Don’t bank on it, says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who took to the national television networks to once again lambaste multinational energy players for supposedly taking advantage of his country. Chavez says that Exxon Mobil’s (“Exxon”) circa US$12 billion sought during World Bank international...

It’s fair to say that Argentina and the United Kingdom share a bit of back history when it comes to the Falkland Islands and renewed tensions over rightful sovereignty for these lands could have been easily enough predicted. The onslaught of appeal to international mediators is quite a spectacle. From...