The Daily Journal — The recent reform of Venezuela’s Organic Hydrocarbons Law has sparked an intense debate about the future of the country’s primary source of income. While the government argues that the changes aim to attract investment and increase oil production, energy economists warn that the new framework significantly reduces the state’s share of […]
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Everything points to unusually warm Pacific waters during the 2026–2027 period, which for Venezuela means less water and more heat. International organizations urge countries to prepare. Vanessa Davies No photographs capture the delivery of household goods to replace what people lost. Politicians cannot kiss grandmothers for the cameras. No rivers drag away vehicles, and no […]
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The BCV figures are beginning to be released, but their prolonged absence has generated “suspicions” among some economists. By José Gregorio Yépez Data from the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) indicate that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Venezuela’s public sector showed a negative performance in the first quarter of 2026, registering -0.68% . This […]
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Professor Dilio Hernández, director of the UCV Center for Research and Prospective Analysis, proposes incorporating both public and private universities. The project is advancing under the framework of the Organic Law on Special Economic Zones. By Vanessa Davies The “house that conquers the shadows” seeks to overcome not only the specters of every kind looming […]
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Octavio Rossell Tabet From the Paleolithic to the Atomic Age Human knowledge has been communicated from generation to generation and has been recorded primarily through writing. The line of progress in that knowledge has been slowly drawn, defining several “eras,” which take their names from the natural materials used to make tools: stone, copper, bronze, […]
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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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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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The Daily Journal.- The recognition by the multilateral institution opens doors for Venezuela to emerge from its economic crisis, but it also leaves many questions unanswered. José Gregorio Yépez Mentioning the International Monetary Fund (IMF) frightens some people, while others see it as an opportunity. For younger generations, it is probably something new, unfamiliar — […]
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The Daily Journal.- The law leaves a grim record after nine years in force: at least 113 detentions and acts of harassment, according to data from Espacio Público. The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, hinted at the possibility of a reform, but national and international organizations are calling for its repeal. Vanessa Davies […]
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