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Is Venezuela on the path to economic recovery, or heading toward another cycle of partial reform and reversal?

In our latest Insights Article, DevTech's Jose Pineda, Ph.D. examines where Venezuela stands as of mid-2026. With oil output climbing, inflation still above 600%, and a $159 billion debt restructuring now underway without an IMF anchor, the stakes couldn't be higher for Venezuela and for the broader region.

Drawing on DevTech's Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) macroeconomic modeling and the latest available data, Jose assesses three critical questions:
🔹 Is stabilization actually taking hold?
🔹 Why isn't investment following?
🔹 Why does the debt restructuring timeline raise red flags?

Real progress has been made, but critical preconditions for recovery remain unmet and the sequencing risk is significant.

Read "Venezuela: Stabilization Under Stress" here: https://lnkd.in/ebDsKGhy

Is Venezuela on the path to economic recovery, or heading toward another cycle of partial reform and reversal?

In our latest Insights Article, DevTech's Jose Pineda, Ph.D. examines where Venezuela stands as of mid-2026. With oil output climbing, inflation still above 600%, and a $159 billion debt restructuring now underway without an IMF anchor, the stakes couldn't be higher for Venezuela and for the broader region.

Drawing on DevTech's Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) macroeconomic modeling and the latest available data, Jose assesses three critical questions:

🔹 Is stabilization actually taking hold?

🔹 Why isn't investment following?

🔹 Why does the debt restructuring timeline raise red flags?

Real progress has been made, but critical preconditions for recovery remain unmet and the sequencing risk is significant.

Read "Venezuela: Stabilization Under Stress" here: https://devtechsys.com/insights/2026/06/03/venezuela-stabilization-under-stress/

AP News highlights how Cuba’s economic crisis is affecting older adults, with rising prices, limited access to basic goods, and a steadily weakening currency shaping daily life. These pressures reflect broader, system-wide challenges that extend far beyond any single story. https://apnews.com/article/cuba-seniors-crisis-us-oil-embargo-e0940ba0d913d66e165d3ad8e2d476f4

At DevTech, our work focuses on making those dynamics more visible and easier to understand. In partnership with the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), we’ve helped make decades of economic research more accessible through DevTech SAGE—allowing users to explore how these challenges have developed over time.

We also track what’s happening outside official systems. Because much of Cuba’s economy operates informally, especially currency exchange, the Cuban Exchange Rate Dashboard uses publicly available data—from social media and community networks—to show how the peso is actually valued in everyday transactions.

Together, these tools help connect individual experiences like those highlighted in the article to the larger economic forces behind them—offering a more complete, real-time picture of how Cuba’s crisis is affecting people across the island.

To explore this work further, visit DevTech SAGE https://lnkd.in/eGrgt2Gm and the Cuban Exchange Rate Dashboard. https://devtechsys.com/projects/the-actual-cuban-exchange-rate-dashboard/

The Actual Cuban Exchange Rate Dashboard This dashboard tracks how much the Cuban Peso is trading for against the Euro and Dollar on the informal market. The Cuban Peso is fixed by the government to the U.S. dollar. However…