- AVIACIÓN
The institute that runs Maiquetía sets September 1 to resume domestic and international flights, in modular terminals.
Dos terminales temporales, salidas y llegadas · 780 pasajeros en la sala internacional y 480 en la nacional · pista 10 derecha reacondicionada · 69 días de cierre comercial
affects anyone moving technical staff, air cargo or executives into Caracas and routing them through Valencia today
- ENERGÍA
The reservoir contract PDVSA signed with SLB would reach the subsurface data archive, as reported and without confirmation from either party.
Alcance atribuido a tres fuentes de la negociación · sin boletín petrolero anual desde 2015 · alianza marco firmada el 18 de agosto en Houston
affects anyone assessing a Venezuelan area with no way to audit its reservoir characterization
- CAPITAL DE RIESGO
Five venture funds from four countries put a million dollars into a platform that runs the books of 5,000 Venezuelan businesses.
US$1 millón en ronda semilla · colíderes SquareOne Capital y Tomorrow Capital · más de 5.000 comercios activos · destino anunciado, crédito a pymes
affects the formal merchant with no credit history, and anyone looking for a way into Venezuelan small-business risk
The body that runs the Caracas airport set September 1, and hanging off that are flight rebookings, freight quotes and trips that currently end in a road leg from Valencia. It is the only firm date. The rest turns on the same scarce good: information an outsider can check. The executive declared its highest oil output since February 2019 on August 24, the ministry has published no annual bulletin since 2015, and the reservoir contract now reported points at rebuilding precisely that archive. The same day, five foreign funds put a million dollars into a platform whose asset is the verifiable record of 5,000 businesses. Whoever arrives is buying auditable data; whoever is already inside works with the declared kind.
The weekly bulletin the National Assembly published on August 24 counts 60,785 buildings inspected in the areas hit by the June 24 earthquakes. Of those, 35,545 are habitable, 14,239 remain under restricted access and 11,001 were declared high-risk, a category that mandates evacuation and priority intervention. The same bulletin records 335 homes handed over to displaced families.
The figure sizes the market the construction law enacted on Tuesday wants to activate, and it also sizes the gap. Eleven thousand high-risk homes are eleven thousand households to replace, not repair, and against a cumulative 335 handovers the public route does not close the arithmetic on its own. The state subsidy already circulating buys finished homes on the secondary market, so it does not fund new construction either. To measure progress, watch the monthly handover flow; the count of displaced families measures need.
The Maiquetía International Airport Institute said on Tuesday, August 25 that domestic and international operations formally start on September 1 at its temporary terminals.
The institute that runs the international airport serving Caracas announced on Tuesday that operations formally start next Tuesday, September 1 at the temporary terminals, for domestic and international flights. The terminal has been closed to commercial traffic since June 24, when the double earthquake damaged the infrastructure and one of the runways. The body asked passengers to check rebookings directly with each airline. An earlier attempt to reopen on August 24 had fallen through after faults were detected in the August 19 drill.
Instituto Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía ↗Salidas internacionales 4.300 m², 4 puertas y 780 pasajeros · salidas nacionales 3.300 m², 3 puertas y 480 · llegadas 2.550 m² más anexos · pista 10 derecha lista · cerrado desde el 24 de junioAn airline schedule moves on a firm date, not on finished works: crews, overflight permits and seats already sold hang off it. With September 1 declared by the operator itself, the commercial closure is bounded at 69 days and the road leg from Valencia stops being an open-ended line in the travel budget.
The airline that recovers the direct leg to Caracas, the perishable air-cargo operator, and the capital's hotels and ground transport that were losing the passenger in Valencia.
Valencia's airport and the logistics built around two months of borrowed traffic, and anyone who already bought a September ticket into Valencia.
INDICADORwhether international carriers list Maiquetía flights in their booking systems for the first week of September, and whether the terminals operate on September 1 without another postponement · el instituto aeroportuario fijó el 1 de septiembre de 2026; el intento anterior estaba fijado para el 24 de agosto y se corrió tras el simulacro del 19 de agosto
PDVSA and SLB have signed a framework alliance for integrated reservoir studies. It is reported, without confirmation from either party, that the contract covers modernizing the state company's databases.
The hydrocarbons minister and SLB signed a framework alliance in Houston for integrated reservoir studies and technical characterization of operating areas, dated August 18. Three sources close to the negotiation, cited in a wire exclusive and without confirmation from SLB or the state company, place the contract's scope at organizing and modernizing the oil company's databases, degraded by years of neglect and a recent cyberattack.
Ministerio de Hidrocarburos ↗Alcance del contrato atribuido a tres fuentes de la negociación, sin confirmación de las partes · sin boletín petrolero anual desde 2015 · alianza marco firmada el 18 de agosto en HoustonThe subsurface is not sold with a map: it is sold with a reservoir characterization the buyer can audit. That file has had no consultable form since the ministry stopped publishing its annual bulletin in 2015, which is why every negotiation starts with the state as the only source. Rebuilding it shifts the information advantage at the table. It is also reported that the result would allow remote consultation of field data, turning an internal archive into due-diligence material.
The operator who now enters blind and could price an area against reservoir data, and the services firm paid to rebuild the archive.
Whoever is already inside and trades on knowing the subsurface better than the newcomer, and the state counterparty that negotiates on information only it holds.
INDICADORwhether SLB or the state company confirm the contract's scope, and whether a remote-consultation mechanism for reservoir data appears for interested third parties · la alianza marco se firmó el 18 de agosto de 2026 y ninguna de las partes ha detallado su contenido
Fina, the management software platform for Venezuelan small businesses, announced on August 24 the close of a one-million-dollar seed round backed by five funds from four countries.
Venezuelan company Fina closed a one-million-dollar seed round, co-led by SquareOne Capital and Tomorrow Capital, with participation from Norte Ventures, Platanus and Neer Venture Partners, plus angel investors who founded fintechs in Brazil, Colombia and Chile. Founded in 2024 by Enrique Rivas, Diego Aponte, Alejandro Fariña and Sebastián Sánchez, the platform centralizes inventory, sales, receivables and payables and bank reconciliation in bolivars and dollars. It reports more than 5,000 active businesses and close to two million dollars in annual recurring revenue. The announced use of proceeds is credit for small and medium businesses.
Fina — vía Descifrado ↗US$1 millón en ronda semilla · colíderes SquareOne Capital y Tomorrow Capital · fondos de cuatro países · más de 5.000 comercios activos · cerca de US$2 millones de ingreso recurrente anualWhat got capitalized is not the app but the record of sales, inventory and collections in two currencies across more than 5,000 businesses. With that history you can score risk where a formal merchant has nothing to show a bank, and the company says that is what the round funds. Five funds from four countries underwriting the thesis put a price on a Venezuelan risk that had none.
The formal merchant who could build a credit history off his own operation, and the four founders who raised foreign capital without moving the company out of the country.
The local administrative-software vendor competing with no round behind it, and the informal lender who covers that gap today at his own rate.
INDICADORwhether the company launches the announced credit product and with which counterparty it funds it, and whether another foreign fund closes a round in Venezuela in the coming quarters · la ronda se anunció el 24 de agosto de 2026 y la compañía no fijó fecha para el producto de crédito