Moisés Naím

Listen to‘Charlatans by Moises Naim and Quico Toro read by Fajer Al-Kaisi’ on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/Bp1cO4BpdwBcY7…

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Trump sobre Venezuela: "Fuera del terremoto, la gente esta feliz y bailando en las calles". Sin comentario.

Reporter: What is the Venezuelan govt’s capacity to lead the reconstruction effort? Me: Prior to Jan 3, they couldn’t even produce oil.

Senate Democrats are investigating a firm with ties to the Trump family that benefits from the lifting of sanctions on Venezuela giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

Las otras réplicas de Venezuela: La corrupción en auge open.substack.com/pub/moisesnaim…

Caracas is on track to reveal borrowings that are significantly larger than expected, with interim leader Delcy Rodríguez aiming to reach a deal with creditors by the end of this year. ft.trib.al/CQOV7Ru

The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans combined — about 32% each. This is what runaway inequality looks like, according to the Fed's most recent data released this month.

After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too economist.com/interactive/de…

A new book by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan provides a vivid, rigorous, and unavoidably depressing chronicle of the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. “Regime Change” is packed with news that will stay news, David Remnick writes. It is particularly strong on the Administration’s colossal financial corruption, its heedless destruction of invaluable agencies such as U.S.A.I.D., and the sordid and unhinged nature of Trump and the culture over which he presides. Haberman and Swan contend that Trump ran in 2024 for one reason above all: “This was about staying out of prison.” Read Remnick on their “exceptional” book: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zMeXnh

" Between 2025 and 2035, around 1.2 billion young people in emerging market and developing economies are set to reach working age, the largest youth cohort the world will likely ever see." worldbank.org/en/research/pu… via @WorldBank

¡El engaño del outsider! Lectura recomendada: La revancha de los poderosos. Moises Naim.

She is not wrong

Venezuela, General Electric sign cooperation agreement on power supply reuters.com/business/energ…

Interesting

Trafigura, Vitol Sell More Venezuelan Oil to Asia on War Turmoil By Lucia Kassai and Yongchang Chin (Bloomberg) -- Commodity traders Trafigura Group and Vitol Group are expanding efforts to sell Venezuelan oil into Asia, a move that comes as the South American country’s production rises and the Iran war disrupts competing supplies from the Middle East. Trafigura has offered Venezuelan flagship Merey 16 crude to refiners in South Korea, according to people with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be named discussing private transactions. The company also recently delivered oil to a refinery in Malaysia, the people said. Traders had also made recent offers to India at discounts of around $6 a barrel to the Dated Brent benchmark, although it wasn’t immediately clear if any volumes had been sold to the South Asian nation, according to the people. Trafigura offered half a million barrels of Merey 16 to South Korean fuelmakers, people with knowledge of the situation said. The oil was eventually discharged into a storage facility in South Korea in early June, data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler Ltd. show. South Korea last bought Venezuelan oil in 2011, according to the country’s customs data compiled by Bloomberg. Trafigura declined to comment. The same vessel that delivered oil to South Korea, the Trafigura-chartered supertanker Nissos Kea, also delivered oil to a Malaysian port that serves the Melaka refinery operated by Petroliam Nasional Bhd, known as Petronas. The refinery is a major producer of asphalt, for which heavy Venezuelan oil is a well-suited feedstock. Another supertanker, the Solana, chartered by Vitol, just unloaded 2 million barrels of Merey 16 into floating storage facilities off the coast of Malaysia. Such facilities are typically used as distribution centers, where large cargoes are broken up into smaller parcels and sold to end users. Vitol didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.

Officials "took everything, demolished walls and ceilings, and killed our dogs" when they recently expropriated the home of Venezuelan opposition leader @leopoldolopez Investors should beware: Delcy Rodriguez's regime does not respect the rule of law wsj.com/opinion/delcy-…

🇨🇳 💰 China has funneled $200B into Latin America since 2005, but a staggering 70% of it is concentrated in just two sectors ↓ China has deployed over $200B into Latin America since 2005, transforming the region's economic landscape. Our latest analysis breaks down the mechanics of this massive capital wave, from state-backed conglomerates to strategic acquisitions. 🗞️ read the full story → latinometrics.com/articles/chine…

Lo que hizo el chavismo con la Universidad Simón Bolivar es vergonzoso. La mejor universidad de Venezuela y una de las mejores escuelas de ingenieros de Latinoamérica quedó en ruinas. Diezmaron a las mejores universidades públicas, pero con la USB se ensañaron por odio a la excelencia y meritocracia.

Venezuela isn’t yet giving Americans enough confidence to invest washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…