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December 2021
November 2021
'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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Girish Gupta
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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Girish Gupta
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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Girish Gupta
September 2021
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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Girish Gupta
August 2021
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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Girish Gupta
Fixers in journalism—and reporting vs writing
Covering Hugo Chávez's cancer announcement for New York Times and Reuters
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Girish Gupta
July 2021
Getting paid as a freelance journalist
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…
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Girish Gupta
Journalism, via code, music, physics—and 9/11
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…
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Girish Gupta
A teenage assassin in Mexico
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…
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