Juan Barreto, Director of The Daily Journal for Venezuela and Latin America In recent days, there has been much talk about dollarization. Congressman Antonio Ecarri put forward this proposal, prompting a strong reaction from National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez. Dollarization is a policy that very few countries have adopted. As you know, there are 192 […]
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Dr. Juan Barreto, Director of The Daily Journal for Venezuela and Latin America This weekend, workers from across the country gathered in Caracas. Curiously, neither influencers nor journalists paid by the rival opposition factions said a word about it. They look the other way and clear their throats uncomfortably. Representatives from the main branches of […]
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Food production, power generation, and access to water could suffer if this phenomenon becomes extreme. Models indicate that it will. Vanessa Davies El Niño is no game. It never is under normal conditions, and much less so during this period, which promises to be fiercer than usual. Colloquially dubbed a Super El Niño, but defined […]
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Juan Barreto – Director of The Daily Journal for Venezuela and Latin America Today is a wonderful and strange day from both an astronomical and astrological point of view. Today, we have the Perseids, a shower of shooting stars crossing the sky, while Europe will witness a solar eclipse, along with a planetary alignment. Let […]
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Dr. Juan Barreto, Director of The Daily Journal for Venezuela and Latin America. Curly in his labyrinth. Could hell be starting to open beneath Marco Rubio’s feet? Where do I get this from? Well, the midterm elections are approaching, and all the polls seem to indicate that Democrats will prevail over Republicans. Some polls even […]
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The Daily Journal – When we stop and look at the state of the world, we scan the horizon from one side to the other and find ourselves overwhelmed, uneasy, even confused. Uncertainty fills us with anxiety because we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel, and amid it all the same […]
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By José Gregorio Yépez A new round of talks between the opposition and the government is about to begin. What can we expect? Judging by what Dinorah Figuera said over the weekend, this new dialogue seemed to begin with a phone call. Yet Jorge Rodríguez’s August 1 statement made one thing unmistakably clear: the talks […]
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By Dr. Juan Barreto, Director of The Daily Journal for Venezuela and Latin America Many are talking—or choosing not to talk—about Venezuela’s external debt. International agencies such as Reuters, Bloomberg, and several British financial publications place the country’s debt at an astronomical $240 billion, while other voices in the economic community, such as Miguel Rodríguez, […]
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Dr. Juan Barreto, The Daily Journal Director for Venezuela and Latin America — It seems that matters have become increasingly complicated inside the White House: nothing personal, just business. A struggle has erupted over the division of the spoils that Venezuela now generates following the military operations that removed Nicolás Maduro and installed a transitional […]
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By Dr. Juan Barreto The long-awaited meeting between the 2015 National Assembly and the 2025 National Assembly ultimately fell far short of the expectations that had built up around it. The much-anticipated first encounter produced one strategic agreement with significant impact: they will create a WhatsApp group—or, as journalist Vladimir Villegas put it, they held […]
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