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Dec 18, 2025
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Which high-profile compensation settlements or unpaid awards involving Venezuela remain unresolved as of 2025?

A cluster of high‑profile international awards and compensation claims against Venezuela remained effectively unresolved through 2025, most notably multi‑billion‑dollar investor‑state arbitration awar...

Dec 6, 2025
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How have shipping patterns and transshipment hotspots shifted since 2020?

Since 2020 shipping flows have shifted from pandemic-era bottlenecks toward route diversification, regional hub growth and increased transshipment activity in Southeast Asia and Caribbean/Atlantic hub...

Jan 14, 2026
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Which other foreign companies have pending ICSID or bilateral treaty claims against Venezuela?

ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are the highest-profile foreign claimants that have pursued treaty-based ICSID or bilateral‑treaty claims against Venezuela, and more recent filings by companies such as ...

Jan 3, 2026

What legal cases have U.S. firms pursued to recover assets seized in Venezuela since 2000, and what were the outcomes?

Since 2000 multiple U.S. and foreign-based companies with U.S. ties have pursued arbitration and U.S. court actions to recover assets expropriated by Venezuela after nationalizations that accelerated ...

Jan 14, 2026

is gaza full of resourses which israel wants?

Gaza sits above confirmed hydrocarbon resources—most notably the Gaza Marine gas field—whose development has been repeatedly blocked by political, security and economic obstacles; international studie...

Jan 11, 2026

https://civicanger.com/2026/01/11/2026-economic-outlook-good-for-them-not-for-us/

The claim that the 2026 economic outlook is “good for them, not for us” captures a real tension in forecasts: professional forecasters and major banks expect modest but steady global growth and coolin...

Jan 8, 2026

Which landmark cases define the indirect expropriation 'substantial erosion' test and how do they differ?

Investment tribunals have coalesced around a “substantial erosion” or “substantial deprivation” yardstick to decide when non‑posses­sory state measures amount to an indirect expropriation, but landmar...

Jan 5, 2026

How have Venezuelan BITs been redrafted or renegotiated since 2012 to change dispute resolution clauses?

Venezuela's 2012 denunciation of the ICSID Convention set in motion a selective retreat from investor‑state arbitration and a cautious renegotiation of dispute resolution clauses in its bilateral inve...

Dec 19, 2025

Which non-oil arbitration claims from the Chávez era were settled or awarded, and how do their outcomes compare to the oil cases?

International arbitration from the Chávez era produced notable non-oil awards—most prominently a US$740 million ICSID award for Canadian miner Gold Reserve over the Brisas/Unicornio mines—alongside ot...

Dec 3, 2025

global economic reset

The phrase “global economic reset” is used to describe calls for large-scale policy shifts and structural change amid slowing growth, higher trade barriers and technological disruption; major institut...

Nov 13, 2025

Were there changes in trade policies influencing food imports in 2025?

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Oct 29, 2025

What are the current US tariffs on imported goods?

The evidence shows there is no single “current US tariff” rate; , and recent analyses report markedly different aggregate measures — from an 18.0% effective rate reported in mid‑October 2025 to lower ...