By Carlos Seijas Meneses Caracas, Jan 24 (EFE).- In the classroom, Lourdes Villarreal, a 56-year-old Venezuelan professor, teaches Performing Arts and Spanish. At home, she cuts, dries, straightens and tints hair, along with baking cakes, all to augment her scanty income as a teacher, a problem that has sparked many protests by the teachers’ union …
By Carlos Seijas Meneses Caracas, Dec 27 (EFE).- The shortage in Venezuela of gasoline, which had been relatively plentiful, has gotten worse in December across much of the country just on the 20th anniversary of a petroleum strike that forced the then-fifth-largest oil producer in the world to import fuel, which it still must do …
By Carlos Seijas Meneses Caracas, Dec 15 (EFE).- The United States’ decision last month to allow American oil company Chevron Corp. to resume limited extraction operations in Venezuela has raised expectations among other multinational companies also looking to restart their business there. Venezuelan crude production, which ended November at just 693,000 bpd, stood at around …
By Carlos Seijas Meneses Caracas, Nov 30 (EFE).- Venezuela is looking to reactivate its automotive sector by assembling models of Iranian vehicles, but auto industry representatives say the plan is only viable if the government takes steps to facilitate greater consumer access to car loans. The president of the Chamber of Autoparts Manufacturers (Favenpa), Omar …
By Carlos Seijas Meneses Caracas, Nov 1 (EFE).- At a fire hydrant in Caracas, 65-year-old Angel Pulgar collects water in a bucket to take to his home, where the pipes have been dry since March. Though fed up with that routine, he doubts normal water service will be restored before year’s end, as President Nicolas …