Walk the Line: a New Chapter in Gas for Maracaibo
The first dramatic change after Manuel Rosales’s victory over Omar Prieto, is the absence of gas lines. The answer lies between street rumors and crowdsourced data
Tag: Gas prices
The Maduro Regime Takes Over Gas Stations—And Whole Communities Suffer
The story of one of Maracaibo’s most crowded gas stations and convenience stores proves how the new economy around gas could change cities
Increasing Gas Prices: Chavismo’s Wrong Solution to Huge Problems
The price of what had been the cheapest gas on Earth was supposed to increase recently. A long-overdue measure that Maduro assures will improve the economy, but will only deepen the fierce control the State has over the average Venezuelan life.
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