Transitioning to a Clean Power Grid
Can grid decarbonization really go hand-in-hand with a strategy to increase oil production? In Leopoldo López and Gustavo Baquero’s vision, the answer is an enthusiastic ‘Yes.’
Economy
Forget the Faja: The Future is Conventional
In Venezuela Energética, López and Baquero underline that Venezuela has enormous conventional oil reserves that are cheaper to produce, cleaner and more profitable than the gunk we’re known for. Why not exploit them?
Coming Up With a Plan: Venezuela Energética
If Venezuela has 20% of global oil reserves, why does it contribute only 2% of global output? The story of how these authors arrived at the answer is as captivating as the answer itself. Here's the Executive Summary of Venezuela Energética.
Punch Drunk on Oil: A Visionary Call to Fix Our Relationship with the Black Stuff
Venezuela’s relationship with its oil has been so self-destructive for so long, we’ve almost forgotten it doesn’t have to be this way. In their new book, Leopoldo López and Gustavo Baquero set out another way.
The Bane of Shopkeepers
Sundde did it again. For the fourth year in a row, it went through one of Caracas’ main commercial areas, making shopkeepers do business at a loss. This time, many stores are going under.
Enter the PETRO
Few things are as hot today as cryptocurrencies, and chavismo sure wants in on the fun. Of course, the meaning of fun here depends on how morally bankrupt you are.
It's Official: Venezuela Enters Hyperinflation
Venezuelan inflation blew past 50% a month, the hyperinflationary threshold.
The Vulture Watching the Bond House
Anatoly sinks his teeth into the story of the defaulted borrower taking informal advice from one of its sketchy skid-row lenders… What could possibly go wrong?
Ten Million Percent Later
Add another zero to the raging fire of Venezuela’s macroeconomic cataclysm.
Schrödinger's Default
This morning, Electricidad de Caracas’s 2018 bond went into default...or did it?
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