08.02.15: Fat Cows

El Universal reported today that while non-oil exports made up 29% of the country’s foreign currency income in 1998, that Continue reading →

02.10.15: SIMADI

For up-to-date exchange rate numbers (including the SIMADI) rate, visit this website.  Minister of Finance Rodolfo Marco Torres announced the much-anticipated Continue reading →

01.03.15: “Smells like Devaluation!”

Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles took to Twitter today to remind Venezuelans that the embezzlement of approximately 20 billion dollars through CADIVI Continue reading →

September 3: “El Sacudon” That Wasn’t

During a televised speech last night, Maduro finally gave the details of his much-hyped sacudon. In Spanish, the word sacudon means, “to Continue reading →

August 16: “Immoral and Obscene”

Spain’s ABC published an article today in which it alleges that Maduro and Chavez’s daughters have spent an average of €2.6 million every Continue reading →

August 8: The Little War

The Public Ministry announced today that it was going to publish the names of 60 companies it has found to Continue reading →

June 25: Defining Times

Fallout from Jorge Giordani’s searing rebuke of Maduro continues, as ex-Minister of Education and high-ranking PSUV member Hector Navarro was Continue reading →

June 18: Flight

The announcement yesterday by American Airlines to reduce the number of flights servicing Venezuela by 80% comes with a startling Continue reading →