Investing Venezuelan oil profits, one crash at a time
Pastor Maldonado’s latest achievement, brought to you by PDVSA: Crashing a Formula 1 car at Los Proceres. As a reader quips, “You can’t make that shit up. PSUV’s...
Economy
Your typical Venezuelan highway
Recent events forced me to travel more than once to Valencia and Puerto Cabello ON the main highway that connects Lara, Yaracuy and Carabobo. As you can see...
Paraguaipoa está que arde
Maracaibo’s oppo daily, La Verdad, has the scoop on the fast rising tensions between the military and the Bachaqueros – the indigenous fuel-smuggling gangs of Zulia State. Sienten...
A bad day for airlines
Yesterday was a pretty bad bay for Venezuelan private airlines. First, the Supreme Court ruled that the common – if obnoxious – business practice of “overbooking” is illegal. The...
Chavista oil workers threaten...a paro!
So, with this forthright, very explicit statement refusing to countenance working under a Capriles administration, aren’t PDVSA’s chavista unions in Zulia basically threatening a paro petrolero!? ¡Ni un...
The only way is bootleg
Long ago, my family loved to watch movies on the weekends, so visiting the video store became a Saturday ritual. That ritual changed along with technology: from VHS,...
SIDOR goes into collision course
After Ferrominera’s internal election, the situation inside Guayana’s empresas básicas is getting more intense by the day. Steel-maker SIDOR is undergoing big change. Rafael Gil Barrios, current president of the...
The bachaqueros are still at it
Remember the bachaqueros? The goajiro gasoline smugglers from Zulia State are not taking the recent crackdown on smuggling sitting down. When the Army and the National Guard were...
There's still room for Orimulsion...
Gustavo Coronel, who has the unfair advantage added bonus of actually knowing what he’s talking about, weighs in on the Orimulsión debate: The Orinoco region contains different grades...
Blast from the Past Chronicles: Orimulsion Edition
The Capriles Campaign’s decision to bring back Orimulsion from the dustbin of failed innovation history has introduced something the campaign had almost completely lacked until now – an...
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