04.19.16: The Cookie Jar

Documents surfaced today linking former Minister of Nutrition Carlos Osorio to suspicious payments worth $5.85 million dollars to a shell company Continue reading →

04.10.16: “Dying Like It’s 1800”

Marianella Herrera, the head of the Observatorio Venezolano de Salud [Venezuela Health Watch] (OVS) has formally asked the Maduro administration to request Continue reading →

03.22.16: Power

The head of the largest private business organization in the country, FEDECAMARAS, said in a television interview earlier today that that Continue reading →

02.24.16: Let Them Eat Guns

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report today which found that Venezuela led all of Latin America in Continue reading →

02.22.16: CAMIMPEG

On February 12, the Venezuelan government created the Compañía Anónima Militar de Industrias Mineras, Petrolíferas y de Gas [Anonymous Military Company for Continue reading →

02.17.16: Gas Prices Go Up

Maduro gave a much-anticipated speech today, in which he had promised to deliver a “really pedagogical explanation” of the economic crisis Continue reading →

02.04.16: Nothing and Nobody

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the 1992 failed coup d’etat against the government of President Carlos Andres Perez launched by Continue reading →

10.10.15: Homes

El Nacional reported today that private home construction in Venezuela has slowed by 88.8% in the last five years. While the Continue reading →