... Venezuela—PETROVEN) in 1976 by Acción Democrática President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Coronel was not reappointed by COPEI President Luis Herrera Campins when his four-year term ended in 1980, but instead was made executive vice-president of MENEVEN, one of the four nationalized subsidiaries of PETROVEN. When...

... populous, Colombia; with an index that lists references to the Liberal party of Honduras but not that of Alfonso López Pumarejo and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán; to Petroperú, but not Petrovén? In other respects, however, the plan of the work is commendable. It makes explicit its conceptual framework, built around...

... governments. Finally, Venezuela’s Petroven (since 1976) has been the successful beneficiary of a gradual, smooth nationalization process and of two governments that have allowed it great autonomy. Again, though the state company experience has varied, a unified interpretive theme emerges. Politics are seen...