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Roy S. Carson is veteran foreign correspondent (45+ years in the business) currently editor & publisher of VHeadline Venezuela reporting on news & views from and about Venezuela in South America -- available for interviews -- call Houston 713.893.1433
SHARE Friday, August 22, 2008 Venezuelan Guayana Corporation insolvency brings 300 small- to medium industries to the brink of financial meltdown!
Camcaroni estimates CVG and subsidiary debts to be in the order of at least Bs.F 300 million with each subsidiary having defaulted on an average of Bs.F 600,000 ($280,000) in payments ... some of which have remained unpaid for more than a year, largely affecting small- to medium industries, many of whom have had to default on state taxes, social insurance and other payments.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 10, 2008 Industry & Mines Ministry's broken promises leave Venezuela's industrial Guayana region in terminal strangulation!
Local newspaper reports say that Minister Sanz has been unable to deal effectively with a challenging crisis which has seen CVG subsidiaries decline to virtual paralysis with the follow-on result that the region is seeing the greatest degree of labor unrest, whereas--elsewhere in Venezuela,Caracas and Maracaibo--there is increased economic activity and security for the state-run corporation's workforce.
SHARE Wednesday, December 10, 2008 It's all a matter of interpretation: Is President Chavez to impose himself as "dictator for life" on Venezuela?
It's all a matter of interpretation: Since it was the first time that PSUV had engaged in ANY local and/or regional elections, it's clear that ANY electoral win could be seen as a gain from a starting point of zero; implying, of course, that the collection of other left-orientated parties that had previously held these States and municipalities had lost, inasmuch as they were basically back to zero...
SHARE Sunday, November 9, 2008 Phew! Another sweaty day in Caracas, Venezuela! What tremors will Friday bring...
A radio interview for 'La Voz de Guayana' (The Voice of Guayana) was most probably aimed at a very local audience in the remote southeastern State of Venezuela, but was picked up by rabid newshounds from Reuters and Bloomberg in Caracas with all the frailties of provincial communications that the wide open expanses of under-developed Venezuela inevitably brings with it.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2009 It's quite amazing how the US media so readily allows itself to be manipulated!
Why am I not surprised by the complete and utter distortions in the mainstream North American media over President Barack Obama's proposal to introduce a form of National Health Service that's been a long time coming to the United States?
SHARE Friday, July 25, 2008 President Hugo Chavez Frias: Right on! Words well spoken -- now let us see the deeds!
While I am not an aviculturalist and could scarcely be described as a culinary expert, the sage words of my mother come to mine that there are more ways than one to cook a goose. Another way of looking at it is that you can always say "Booh!" to a goose but you've got to be aware that it will generally respond with a hiss and a cackle that otherwise has no productive outcome.
SHARE Wednesday, November 26, 2008 As Russian warships, Medvedev, visit Venezuela, the Maduro/Flores 'Rocky Horror Show' becomes tragi-comedy!
As the Russian destroyer 'Admiral Chabanenko' was first to dock at La Guaira, ahead of the nuclear-powered cruiser 'Peter the Great', Medvedev's high profile visit marks an "interesting" alliance between the two oil producers and their common interest in deflating Washington DC ego-trippers in the eyes of the rest of the world.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 3, 2008 London Mayor Boris Johnson blackballs Venezuela; insists sending back US$14 million to sever deal with Caracas
The big upset in Venezuela-London relations came when Johnson defeated Livingstone at the polls and suspended the Venezuela agreement the minute he took office saying that Londoners should feel uncomfortable with the fact that their buses operate with discounted fuel from "a country where many people live in extreme poverty."