Bloomberg: Erebor Bank Startup Proposes Reconnecting Venezuela to the U.S. Financial System

The Daily Journal. – The U.S. startup Erebor Bank, financially backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, has begun direct contacts with senior Venezuelan officials to propose restoring the country’s access to the U.S. financial system, according to a Bloomberg report. The digital bank, which obtained its operating license in the United States just three months ago, […]

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Víctor Hugo Quero Case Highlights Failures in the Justice and Prison Systems

For Carmen Teresa Navas, it was enough to gather the strength to find out where her son was. After finding him dead, sadness, helplessness, and perhaps rage seemed to have drained the health from her 82-year-old body. José Gregorio Yépez She was not looking for culprits. She was only looking for her son. In that […]

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Opportunity, New Political Moment, or Transition?

Américo Briceño Dos Santos, political scientist and university professor In a social context that continues to resign vast sectors of Venezuelan society to a relative deprivation of their material conditions, and with political violence shaping the social order—becoming somatized in bodies and undermining the collective mood—the civic spirit shifts its horizon of expectations from the […]

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