Self-employment is extinguished: Venezuela registers the largest contraction of entrepreneurship in Latin America in 2025

Sanctions, inflation and fiscal asphyxiation: the structural causes behind the desertion of 1.3 million entrepreneurs in Venezuela.

Caracas Investment Week

April 23–24, 2026 in Caracas. Investors, policymakers, and business leaders to assess investment prospects and the country’s evolving economic outlook.

A look at the foreign investors coming to Venezuela and what they are after.

Investor attention is increasingly expanding to sectors such as mining, infrastructure, tourism, financial services, and real estate.

U.S. Issues Licenses to Allow Critical Minerals Transactions in Venezuela

The US authorizations allow specific activities in a sector that Washington considers strategic. This decision complements the licenses previously granted for the hydrocarbons and gold areas. Reported in TalCual March 27, 2026

Profile: Angel Alayon

Ángel Alayón is a Venezuelan economist trained at the University of Chicago, a professor at IESA, and the founder of the influential analysis platform Prodavinci.