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February 2011—After flying south over miles of gorgeous turquoise ocean, punctuated by small fishing vessels glinting in the bright sun, we banked left…
Girish Gupta

December 2021

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…
Girish Gupta

November 2021

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…
Girish Gupta
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 will today plead not guilty to money laundering charges in a Florida court. This excerpt offers the story behind our investigation into his…
Girish Gupta

September 2021

We sat on a small metal boat and glided downriver, meandering through foliage and tiny mines. Armed with weighing scales, magnifying glasses and…
Girish Gupta

August 2021

On the Venezuela/Colombia border
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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…
Girish Gupta
Covering Hugo Chávez's cancer announcement for New York Times and Reuters
Girish Gupta

July 2021

Most news outlets pay per word published, a concept I’ve always thought absurd, as of course some words cost more to produce than others. Consider, for…
Girish Gupta
Around the age of eleven, in the late 1990s, I had taught myself to code. I had no benchmark, curriculum, or people around me doing it, so I just kept…
Girish Gupta
A couple of weeks into my time in Mexico, I read in a local newspaper about Ponchis, a teenage assassin who had become the face of the country’s drug…
Girish Gupta
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