Every briefing on Caracas Research is derived from primary Venezuelan-government, US-government, and international monitoring sources — refreshed twice daily, with full provenance kept for each data point.
The complete US Treasury OFAC consolidated SDN list, filtered for Venezuela-related programs (VENEZUELA, VENEZUELA-EO13850, VENEZUELA-EO13884). Tracks every individual, entity, vessel, and aircraft sanctioned in connection with Venezuela.
Final rules, proposed rules, executive orders, and notices published by federal agencies. Source of truth for OFAC general licenses, sanctions actions, and trade rule changes.
Official news feed of the Venezuelan National Assembly: bills introduced, laws passed, committee work, and parliamentary diplomacy. Translated into English by our analyzer.
The official gazette publishing every Venezuelan law, decree, and government resolution. We OCR scanned PDFs and persist the underlying text so each item is searchable and analyzable.
Official daily exchange rate of the bolivar against the US dollar, plus monetary policy announcements. Used as a baseline for all Venezuela-USD conversions on this site.
Official US State Department travel advisory level for Venezuela. Used in the security and operating-environment sections of the pillar guide and travel-related tools.
Global news event database used as a tone signal — we use the GDELT V2 GKG tone score as one of the inputs that decides which items get the more expensive LLM analysis treatment.
Each scrape run pulls fresh content from the sources above, deduplicates against what we've already seen, and runs the resulting items through a multi-stage filter:
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