Black Market – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:42:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Black Market – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 ¿Por qué se disparó el dólar en Venezuela en apenas unas horas? https://onvenezuela.com/por-que-se-disparo-el-dolar-en-venezuela-en-apenas-unas-horas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=por-que-se-disparo-el-dolar-en-venezuela-en-apenas-unas-horas Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:44:16 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=15752

El pago de bonos a decenas de miles de empleados y maestros de la educación coincidió con la ausencia de ofertas de divisas del Banco Central, advierten los expertos. La falta de reservas y la caída petrolera también favorecen la inestabilidad cambiaria. Por Gustavo Ocando Alex. Texto Competo -> VOA

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]]> Venezuela: Where Scarcity Becomes Business There’s a black market for everything. https://onvenezuela.com/venezuela-where-scarcity-becomes-business-theres-a-black-market-for-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-where-scarcity-becomes-business-theres-a-black-market-for-everything Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:51:19 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=3694

Venezuelans will always find ways to trade with anything scarce, from food to DirecTV kits, by Daisy Galaviz. Full Text -> Caracas Chronicles

]]> The shadow war on the Venezuela-Colombia border https://onvenezuela.com/the-shadow-war-on-the-venezuela-colombia-border/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shadow-war-on-the-venezuela-colombia-border Wed, 06 May 2020 12:50:27 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=3064

Even against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, a war is being waged along the vast and porous Venezuela-Colombia border, across which people, narcotics, black market gasoline, food, and medicine are smuggled, and where criminals and guerrillas find refuge. By Joshua Collins. Full Text -> The New Humanitarian

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