The Diosdado Trade
As Diosdado Cabello meets Wall Street investors, Venny bond prices rally. What’s going on? No one is sure, but word on the Street is that the PDVSA re-profiling is basically a done deal.
Economy
When is a forex crime not actually a crime? When you've decriminalized it, that's when.
Just a year ago, Venezuela effectively decriminalized parallel Forex trading. Half the government seems to have forgotten they did that, the other half seems to be regretting it.
What's the deal with santería and espiritismo?
We set the record straight on the people dressed in white.
You heard it here first: BCV is running out of hard assets
Financial statements prove the Venezuelan Central Bank is rojo rojito. As in, in the red.
Dragons and Tigers and Pandas, oh my!
If we look at the Fondo Chino from the Chinese side, we might just understand why China keeps lending to Venezuela, while everyone else has stopped.
The Revolution's Dashed Bioethanol Dreams
Five years on, PDVSA's big plans to turn sugarcane into bioethanol to fuel cars is rusting away in a Cojedes scrapyard.
What was Venezuela's colonial economy like?
An agrarian economy built on cocoa, coffee and the brutal oppression of indigenous people and African slaves.
"God will provide"
The intense hatred people feel for Nicolás Maduro and company stems, in large part, from the fact that they just don't show up for work.
How do elections to the National Assembly work?
Venezuela's National Assembly is chosen through a Mixed, Single Member Constituency/Proportional Representation System. Only some of the Single Member Constituencies have more than one member, and the Proportional Representation System is not proportional. Any questions?
We found the 2016 National Budget (sort of)
Tired of waiting for Marco Torres to fill us in on how much money Venezuela will spend next year, Anabella Abadi went ahead and got us the scoop.
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