EDITORIAL STANDARDS
What we guarantee the reader.
Vene Economist operates under four public editorial guarantees. These are not aspirations — they are the criteria against which the reader can measure any published piece and return it to us when any one fails.
Editorial independence
Vene Economist does not accept financing, agreements or editorial influence from companies, funds or governments it reports on. Coverage decisions are not conditioned by commercial relationships, corporate subscribers or press deals.
Fact verification
Every figure, event or citation published is contrasted against a primary source before becoming part of a piece. What is not verifiable is not published. What is updated post-publication is marked with a modification date.
Primary sources
We cite the actor of the fact — the company, the official agency, the market terminal — and not the media outlet that reports it. This reduces the chain-of-broken-telephone effect and makes our content auditable by the reader.
Analytical neutrality
Vene Economist is neither favorable nor opposed to the Venezuelan government. We report verifiable facts and deliver concrete indicators so the reader forms their own thesis. Political opinion is outside our editorial scope.
PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION
Why we use VE Score and not credit rating notation
Vene Economist does not use Moody's, Fitch or S&P notation in editorial content. These agencies publish regulated credit ratings that serve a different purpose: measuring default probability over specific financial obligations.
VE Score is our editorial indicator on the full investment environment — including regulatory, sector, operational and country risk factors that credit ratings by construction do not capture.
We do not replace credit rating agencies. We operate in a complementary analytical layer that the emerging-markets investor needs for decisions that ratings alone do not resolve.
CORRECTIONS POLICY
When we publish an error, we correct it visibly.
If you detect a factual error in a published piece, write to editor@veneeconomist.com with the URL, the disputed data point and the source you suggest.
Material corrections are noted at the foot of the piece with an update date. The article's semantic structure is updated with the new dateModified so search engines and aggregators register the change.
Typographical errors are corrected silently. Changes that alter the reading of the fact are always noted.
EDITORIAL INSTITUTION
Who is behind Vene Economist?
Mission, audience, editorial products, and the Vene Economist Intelligence Unit as a collective newsroom.
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