Field Dispatch

In March the peninsula's refineries ran at three tenths. The desk went back in the week one of them caught fire, and found the road to it closed by people who...

Guarico’s harvest is caught between a shut silo, failed rains and repeated power cuts. The desk returns to Calabozo while Caracas is reported to be waiting for...

Return leg to Estado Monagas: the company expropriated at Cerro Negro in 2007 is back at the field with a judgment in its pocket, the Russian stake is still on...

Return leg to Estado Anzoategui: thirty billion barrels in the ground, two upgraders on the coast, and the road between them.

Return leg to Estado Zulia: the eastern shore, the bridge, and the megawatts that were supposed to come with the licences. Nine conceded fields on a grid...

Estado Nueva Esparta: Margarita, Coche, Cubagua. The only state in the federation that cannot be reached by road, drinking water piped from another state and...

The western terminus of the largest infrastructure contract Venezuela ever signed with China is forty one kilometres of track with cattle standing on it. A week...

The state on the unruptured half of the fault. Four days on the Trasandina and the Panamericana, through the valley that multiplies the country's seed potatoes...

Every dispatch since June has counted what fell. This one counts what has to move: close to a million tonnes of white maize off the Portuguesa plain between...