Minister of the People's Power for Trash Talking About Housing
Today, housing minister Ricardo Molina called together a bunch of media for a ceremony in Táchira to deliver 48 new homes. Forty eight! Except, as Julio Borges keeps...
Today, housing minister Ricardo Molina called together a bunch of media for a ceremony in Táchira to deliver 48 new homes. Forty eight! Except, as Julio Borges keeps...
What do you call a firm that had existed for less than three months when it landed a $252 million contract to sell a PDVSA-subsidiary (Bariven) equipment that...
On Saturday, Chávez announced another Bs.564 million rescue to try to plug the neverending financial shortfalls facing the Nationalized Guayana industries. There’s enough candy for everyone in that piñata: Alcasa...
You remember Chávez’s Electrical Emergency Decree, right? Signed during the blackout-prone days of early 2010, it allowed state agencies to circumvent normal public sector procurement processes to obtain...
From an AVN story about a meeting Hugo Chávez held yesterday with the Chinese: “Chávez … explained that Chinese banks give out loans to Venezuela and, in exchange,...
The Venezuelan government is now facing over $40 billion in arbitration claims relating to 19 cases at ICSID, the World Bank’s arbitration panel. (A few of those claims...
Deep in his comment section, the Satanic Bowel Movement turns up the smoking gun in the case for thinking Fonden’s books will never ever make sense to an...
Venezuela hosts one of the world’s largest gold mines, and we know it’s going to be developed now because the concession is in the capable hands of: Dot...
So now that we have those Fonden disclosure documents, it’s time to jump into the minutiae. Of course, we only have detailed 5-year disclosures for $40 billion out...
Perhaps the most important aspect of The Fonden Papers doesn’t have to do with the $29 billion tabulation screw-up. Indeed, innocent explanations might account for that. Perhaps the...
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