Javier Mijares, Author at Caracas Chronicles

Javier Mijares

Javier is the founder and managing director of NEXO Field Relations, a consulting firm specializing in social risk management and community relations for companies operating in Venezuela. An anthropologist by training, he holds a master’s degree in International Development from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Chevening Scholar.

The Social Crisis Awaiting Venezuela’s Returning Investors

Mines and oilfields are reopening. The communities around them are not what foreign companies remember

Javier Mijares May 12, 2026

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