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A foolhardy visit to a Venezuelan prison
September 2011—I wanted to get inside a prison to see what it was really like. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its…
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'We want food!' Looting and riots rock Venezuela daily
In May 2016, the numbers on my Venezuela Econ website showed the currency now weakened past 1,100 per dollar on the black market—and the streets were…
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Watching Hugo Chávez rebuke the press—baseball mitt in hand
Just before midnight on September 28, 2011, I and the other journalists covering Venezuela saw that El Nuevo Herald, a fiery Spanish-language sister to…
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Alex Saab's murky oil deal with the Venezuelan government
Alex Saab will today plead not guilty to money laundering charges in a Florida court. This excerpt offers the story behind our investigation into his…
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Gliding along an Amazon river and encounters with flesh-eating bugs
We sat on a small metal boat and glided downriver, meandering through foliage and tiny mines. Armed with weighing scales, magnifying glasses and…
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Smuggling the world's cheapest gas
On the Venezuela/Colombia border
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Covering the death of Hugo Chávez
It was March 5, 2013. I’d woken up early that morning and visited a small chapel outside the military hospital where Hugo Chávez was being treated…
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Always Go
Always Go
Excerpts from my upcoming memoir.

Always Go

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