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After 14 years of Hugo Chávez’s self-styled “social revolution”, his death this March has left Venezuela’s business executives and accountants looking to a new president to jumpstart the country’s stumbling economy. Venezuela’s consumer prices soared and scarcities of basic consumer goods reached record highs last month as Nicolás Maduro was narrowly elected to replace his strongman predecessor.…

As Nicolás Maduro takes the helm as interim President of Venezuela, following the death of his strongman predecessor Hugo Chávez on Tuesday, auto dealers and manufacturers are asking whether the government will continue with policies that produced vehicles shortages and raised prices to exorbitant levels.…

As Nicólas Maduro takes the reins as Venezuelan interim president following the death of his strongman predecessor Hugo Chávez, educators and university administrators are hoping for a chance to repair tattered relations with their government.

“It could be an opportunity, we’re waiting for them to listen us,” said Rafael Escalona, academic vice rector at Caracas’ Simón Bolívar University (USB).…

Venezuela’s steel industry and investors are hoping the country’s Interim President Nicolás Maduro will break with the policies of his late predecessor Hugo Chávez, which have severely buffeted a once largely private and highly profitable sector.

“The disaster of the industry is a combination of policy and mismanagement,” explained analyst Robert Bottome, director of the Caracas-based VenEconomy Publications Group.…

IT has been called the world’s most powerful bank. In their book ‘China’s Superbank Debt, Oil and Influence – How China Development Bank [CDB] is Rewriting the Rules of Finance’, Bloomberg journalists Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe describe how the “CDB’s system of local government finance has helped lift millions out of poverty and shielded the country from recession”.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Venezuela’s so-called ‘autonomous’ public universities are claiming they will receive only a fraction of the state funding they require in 2012 under a new government budget, currently being finalised in the country’s national assembly. The universities claim they are being singled out because of their independence – they are public, but not under the control of President Hugo Chavez’ leftist government.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

VENEZUELA: Student hunger strike ends with prison release

Pacifica Goddard

Venezuelan student protestors have agreed to end a hunger strike that they had been taking part in for the previous 23 days. Organised by opposition youth group Active Youth, Venezuela United (JAVU), the strike began on January 31, with only nine students but quickly grew until more than 80 people were participating.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

VENEZUELA: Student hunger strike ends with prison release

Pacifica Goddard

Venezuelan student protestors have agreed to end a hunger strike that they had been taking part in for the previous 23 days. Organised by opposition youth group Active Youth, Venezuela United (JAVU), the strike began on January 31, with only nine students but quickly grew until more than 80 people were participating.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

A decade ago, Latin America was considered to be one of the beer industry’s toughest markets, due to frequent bouts of economic uncertainty and political turmoil. But a lot has changed in the region since the year 2000, and recently instead of recoiling from this region, the biggest beer companies in the world have been fighting tooth and nail for shares of it.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

The carbonated soft drink segment has suffered recently in the United States and Europe, as consumers have become more health conscious and switched to less sugary alternatives, but in Latin America carbonated beverages have continued to perform well.…