Formalizing a Rogue Economy in a Rogue State
The ANC is looking to modify the VAT law to tax transactions in dollars. What does this mean?
Raúl left his career as a transactional lawyer to blog.
The ANC is looking to modify the VAT law to tax transactions in dollars. What does this mean?
Are things better in Caracas? New business has sprouted, traffic jams are back, people are getting ready for Christmas, and no one talks about politics. Here’s a stab at understanding what’s going on.
We already know that the Venezuelan comedian just spent two months in jail. What we don’t know is the story of what happened in there. Here it is.
Venezuela has been under a nationwide power outage for over 15 hours. There's little information coming out of the country right now.
Stung by fresh U.S. sanctions, Maduro decided to strike back against Guaidó. But how? The best he could come up with is making it hard for Guaidó to use money he’s rendered worthless, and property he’s rendered meaningless.
We’re celebrating Caracas Chronicles’ 16th anniversary today. Thanks for sticking around for this long. Here’s to many more!
We interviewed Juan Requesens a few days before he was snatched from home by the government's intelligence police. There's still no information of the young legislator's whereabouts.
You know that if-I-had-only-just-shut-up feeling you get when you’ve been complaining about something that gets just unbelievably worse? Well, just enjoy this December 10, 2016 Christmas post by Raúl Stolk.
Fraud seems like the only reasonable explanation for tonight's unfathomable election results. It's also the easiest way to paint yourself into a corner.
Each Friday, Raúl regales the members of our mailing list with a scrumptious little nugget of wisdom in our Weekly Arepa. Here’s this week’s.
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