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Venezuela’s cosmetic craze is renowned throughout the region. A beauty culture exists that – besides boosting sales – has produced six Miss Universe winners, six Miss World winners, six Miss Internationals and one Miss Earth. But despite the extra attention given to personal care in this Andean nation, residents have recently been hard pressed to find the most basic of necessities, such as soap and shampoo.…

‘LA TORRE PUIG,’ the 22-storey Puig Tower now being fitted out in the Plaza de Europa, of the Catalan capital, Barcelona, for Puig SL, the family owned fragrances and fashion firm, will be yet another landmark building for one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.…

WHILE it is hard to generalise about a region as diverse as Latin America, the truth is that many of its consumers are more concerned about personal appearance than is typical elsewhere in the world, and that is good news for the personal care product industry.…

Venezuela’s tobacco growers and manufacturers are looking to newly elected president Nicolás Maduro to offer them an olive branch after his predecessor Hugo Chávez levied costly taxes and imposed punishing legislation on the industry.

“We’re hoping for change,” said Enrique Moreno, President of the Venezuelan Tobacco Growers Association (AVENCULTA).”We…

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.…