27F filled our homes with ghosts, with espantos. The faces of the dead, which some tried to erase from memory. The sense of what it's like to lose any trace of the rule of law. The voices of the prophets who told us that other tragedies would come. We were never the same after those days in 1989.
The events of 1989 carry traces of social trauma: it transcends history and lives ambivalently as a portmanteau fantasy, carrying both fears and desires.
The Caracazo is ingrained in our collective psyche so deeply it’s now more myth than event. There are as many different versions of what happened out there as there are agendas prompting them. But what really happened? In the first of a three-part series, we look at what actually happened in Venezuela betwen February 27th and March 2nd, 1989.
PDVSA is testing the waters for a long-awaited ‘swap’ of PDVSA 2016/2017 bonds. But the exercise could prove so costly, it may just not be politically or financially sustainable.
The Petrocéntrico view that specializing on oil will make us rich is both wrong and dangerous. If we're serious about development, diversification is not a tarea we get to just skip.
In Venezuela these days, having a baby is a logistical feat you can only manage by plunging head first into the murky waters of the bachaquero economy.
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