An interview with Vicente Llatas, executive vice president of CanTV, Venezuela’s biggest telecoms provider.
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Resource Rich, Cash Poor
PDVSA needs to invest more to keep current energy production at its present level. Rising operating and production costs are making the goal more elusive.
by Brian S. McBeth
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Riding Out the Storm
As Venezuela confronts one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history, the government and its people struggle to hold on to democracy and to a cohesive society. Jonathan Wheatley reports in this supplement.
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Tending Both Sides of the Budget
Jesús Bermúdez, Venezuela’s deputy finance minister, says the government has assembled a coherent plan to attack one of the country’s most serious economic weaknesses, its deteriorating […]
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The Battle to Stay Afloat
Companies in Venezuela’s non-oil sector have had a hard time staying in business because domestic demand is weak and a strong bolivar shut them out of export markets.
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Absorbing Extra Currency
Despite having one of the world’s richest oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy must still fight to overcome the effects of an overvalued currency and an unstable business environment.
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July 2002
Alvaro Uribe takes over as Colombia’s new president. He promises to bring order to a country locked in a bitter armed conflict and suffering low growth and widespread unemployment.
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Down and Out of Fuel
Despite having one of the world’s richest oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy must still fight to overcome the effects of an overvalued currency and an unstable business environment.
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Why We Need Washington
Seen from Washington, Latin America often looks like a speck. American policies, such as trade, are taken with little or no reference to the region. Indeed, the US does not […]
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Long Live the Washington Consensus!
Brazil is facing a financial crisis as the October presidential elections approach. Argentina has already gone down in smoke. Colombia is in the throes of civil unrest. Venezuela is governed […]