Chavismo’s New Campaign to Bring the Bolivar Back to Life
The Maduro regime is using social media to promote the idea that a new tax on dollar transactions will have no impact on the majority of the population
Economy
Hallacanomics 2021
How has the bodegón economy affected the ingredient availability and price of Venezuela's favorite Christmas dish? Let's see
A Digital Economy Is Speeding Up in Venezuela
Tech startups that offer online banking and financial services, transportation and delivery services, as well as digital payment alternatives, e-commerce, cryptocurrencies and fintech are multiplying all over the country
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
When Will Hyperinflation End?
Venezuela joined the exclusive club of hyperinflationary four years ago, at the end of 2017. The end is near
A Snapshot of Crypto Adoption in Venezuela
Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance are also being used in daily transactions as a protection from the cash crisis, devaluation, and hyperinflation
Dropping the Caracas Chronicles NFT Bills
We designed an NFT campaign to help fund Caracas Chronicles and after a couple of weeks of tweaking the drop, we're ready. We've got a date and a merry band of experts to celebrate it with
Francisco Monaldi: ‘Venezuela Won’t Even Get to Exploit 5% of Its Oil Reserves’
Now that oil prices are recovering, Francisco Monaldi analyzes the truth of the nature and magnitude of what lies beneath the Faja del Orinoco (Orinoco Belt) and the historic use of fossil fuel to determine the role of oil in our future
Venezuelan Foreign Asset War: Monómeros
The intervention of a Venezuela owned company in Colombia has become an embarrassing chapter of the Venezuelan political crisis and the strategic war to control our foreign assets
Dollars Are Here to Stay, But Bolivars Aren't Going Away
The de facto dollarization is unstoppable, but the BCV won’t disappear and Venezuela will continue to use bolivars for certain things. Several countries in the region have taken that path.
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