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Recent Country Insights
Webinar replay - Venezuela: The road ahead
VENEZUELA · Report · 31 Jul 2026
After Venezuela was shaken by twin earthquakes, bringing a tragic loss of life and destruction, the country must rebuild and try to move forward. How are recovery and reconstruction efforts proceeding? What are the economic and political ramifications for the country? How is Venezuela faring on o...
Upcoming webinar - Venezuela: The road ahead
VENEZUELA · Report · 29 Jul 2026
Time: 10:00 AM EDT After Venezuela was shaken by twin earthquakes, bringing a tragic loss of life and destruction, the country must rebuild and try to move forward. How are recovery and reconstruction efforts proceeding? What are the economic and political ramifications for the country? How is...
Earthquakes expose the extent of U.S. oversight
VENEZUELA · Report · 28 Jul 2026
Since January 3, Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government has operated under an arrangement by which Washington retains strategic decision-making authority and control over oil revenues, while Rodríguez runs the government with autonomy limited to non-strategic areas. The June 24 earthquakes put t...
Double shock: Earthquake emergency and lower oil revenue
VENEZUELA · Report · 21 Jul 2026
The twin earthquakes of June 24 altered the macroeconomic landscape just as the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) was beginning to experiment with a new exchange rate regime. Reconstruction will increase public expenditure needs at a time when deteriorating oil revenue reduces the room to finance t...
Delcy Rodríguez’s first major test
VENEZUELA · Report · 04 Jul 2026
The June 24 earthquakes are Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government’s first major operational test since assuming power in January of this year. The response has been opaque, slow, and heavily dependent on U.S. military and humanitarian cooperation, more visible than the Venezuelan Armed Forces them...
Economic impact of the earthquakes
VENEZUELA · Report · 02 Jul 2026 · 2 responses
The double earthquake of June 24, 2026, intensifies Venezuela’s economic crisis. The disaster struck a country with no fiscal space, no access to international financing, an electricity system operating at its limit, a fragile exchange rate regime, and a fractured payment system. It multiplies ex...
Oil tailwind switches course
VENEZUELA · Report · 23 Jun 2026 · 1 response
The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz has changed our outlook. The extraordinary oil windfall that sustained foreign exchange inflows during the first half of 2026 is starting to move in reverse, prompting us to revise our inflation and depreciation forecasts upward for the second half of this ye...
Moving forward without certainty
VENEZUELA · Report · 01 Jun 2026
The Delcy Rodríguez government is moving ahead with calculated pragmatism: freeing prisoners, reopening public space, and attracting oil investment, while keeping the instruments of political control intact—the Attorney General’s Office, the courts, and the repressive legal framework—and favoring...
Venezuela’s restructuring announcement: the right words, eloquent silences
VENEZUELA · Report · 15 May 2026
On May 13, the Venezuelan government formally launched its external debt restructuring process through a statement signed by Calixto Ortega, Vice President for the Economy. The same day, a Businesswire release announced that Centerview Partners will serve as financial advisor. The appointment of ...