The Caracas Stock Exchange stagnates in bolivars and bleeds in dollars while the country looks the other way. Julio A. López.— If the stock market is the thermometer of a nation’s economic health, Venezuela has a high fever, and nobody is taking its temperature. The Caracas Stock Exchange (BVC) is experiencing critical stagnation that raises […]
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Héctor Sánchez, Sociologist — The National Government has just approved a series of agreements with companies such as General Electric to “reactivate” the national power system. The amounts remain unclear—as does everything in this country, where figures blur between propaganda and opacity—but people speak of several billion dollars. An astronomical sum that, in any country […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute — An axiom my political theory professors always drilled into me is that if you find yourself analyzing a conflict in full swing, you must never trust the statements of heads of state, diplomats, or the warring parties. On the cold chessboard of power, you have to look at what they do, […]
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It’s Time for Oil Contracts. Listen to the Editorial audio here: https://clyp.it/1mybbqxi Julio A. López, Editor-in-Chief.— For years, Venezuela discussed sanctions, licenses, restrictions, international litigation, and political disputes. However, for major international oil companies, a much simpler and more practical question exists: What will the rules of the game be? The recent hiring of the […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute In philosophy, Johann Gottlieb Fichte described the dialectical movement of consciousness: the “I” (thesis) collides with the external world, or “Not-I” (antithesis), and through overcoming that resistance, achieves self-awareness (synthesis). Fichte, a pillar of German Idealism, never drew a graph. Yet, modern storytelling took his principle of tension and constant collision and […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute— A senior U.S. official leaked to The NY Times (under anonymity and via telephone) the full text of the agreement to cease hostilities, open the Strait of Hormuz, and initiate nuclear talks. Journalists from the newspaper annotated this Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, introducing underlying analyses. Memorandum clauses and expert analysis Paragraph 1: […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute— Is there a signed peace agreement—or one pending signature—between Iran and the United States? No. Iran terms it a “memorandum of understanding,” which is slated to be signed on Friday the 19th, if it is signed at all. Only subsequent to that would formal peace “negotiations” commence, subject to a 60-day window. […]
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Héctor Sánchez, Sociologist — Commentators have repeatedly described the 2026 FIFA World Cup as historic because three countries are jointly hosting it. Yet behind the rhetoric of sporting unity lies an unprecedented contradiction: for the first time in history, one of the host nations—the United States—maintains a state of open military hostility toward another participating […]
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Américo Briceño Dos Santos, Political Scientist and University Professor — Most people conveniently understand peace as the absence of war or a period without conflict. However, Costa Rican politician Oscar Arias defines it differently: “Peace is a process, an attitude, a behavior, a way of life. It is not the absence of conflict, but the […]
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Roger J. Rivero, Industrial Engineer. Audio: https://clyp.it/klcwekmn Let’s talk about the phases and processes of Oil Production, which we will break down below. Now, let’s describe the stages, which are as follows:1. Upstream (Exploration-Production)2. Midstream (Transportation-Storage)3. Downstream (Refining-Marketing) 1) Upstream (Field Exploration/Production)The most human, the most criticized, and the most dangerous stage. In past decades, the […]
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