Christmas Eve Releases
Your daily briefing for Sunday, December 24, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Sunday, December 24, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
It's become tradition: each year he growls and drums his fingers thinking of how he’ll keep Christmas from coming to Venezuela. What does the Grinch have in store this time? Anabella Abadi wrote this post on November 6 this year, and it's prophetic. Down to the children-kidnapping bit.
You know that if-I-had-only-just-shut-up feeling you get when you’ve been complaining about something that gets just unbelievably worse? Well, just enjoy this December 10, 2016 Christmas post by Raúl Stolk.
In December 2012, the average price for a kilo of meat was around Bs. 30. This Christmas, you can buy 1kg. of meat for Bs. 200.000 if you're lucky enough to find and afford it. In this November 7, 2012 post, Gustavo Hernández reminds us that scarce hallaca ingredients were already a thing back then.
Right-wing Sebastián Piñera just won the presidency of Chile and will be taking over after many years of leftie Bachelet rule. What does this mean for the huge Venezuelan expat community down South?
In Venezuela Energética, López and Baquero propose something that was almost anathema: what if we exploit oil AND also produce other things?
Can grid decarbonization really go hand-in-hand with a strategy to increase oil production? In Leopoldo López and Gustavo Baquero’s vision, the answer is an enthusiastic ‘Yes.’
Your daily briefing for Thursday, December 21, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
In Venezuela Energética, López and Baquero underline that Venezuela has enormous conventional oil reserves that are cheaper to produce, cleaner and more profitable than the gunk we’re known for. Why not exploit them?
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, December 20, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
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