Under the electricity emergency decree, Electricidad de Caracas scheduled the construction of several power plants, awarding the construction contracts for five of them to a company with no experience in the electricity sector: Derwick Associates. This company...
Following a military operation to evict the miners, the report describes the illegal gold mining and its environmental and social consequences in the Caura River Basin, one of the last pristine watershed regions and with greatest biodiversity because the region (only...
The “Work Plan for the Framework Agreement on National Geological Survey of Venezuela” was signed by China and Venezuela along with the cession of rights for the survey of minerals in its territory to a trade partner, i.e. the transfer of vital information and...
From 2007 to 2008, various irregularities occurred in the purchase of food by the State, specifically since Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) took the reins of the so-called “food sovereignty”....
President Nicolás Maduro reported that he will create a presidential commission to investigate how the exchange control system in place in Venezuela since 2003 was breached. The claim was an admission from the highest level of the State that corruption had nested in...
