1. The only way you can drown out the Venezuelan narrative is to do something big

2. It invests some of the cash from the government in Venezuelan bonds

3. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan people are left to cope

4. The Venezuelan government has already granted him asylum and other Latin American countries, including Bolivia, have expressed a willingness to do so

5. The photos are the first images of the revolutionary leader since a set of photos came out in August showing him talking with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

6. Those who get rich doing business with the Venezuelan government can go in and out of favor which is what happened to Ricardo Fernandez

7. The Venezuelan government has turned down a request by former presidents of Chile and Colombia to visit opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in jail

8. Statistics gathered by the nongovernment group Venezuelan Violence Observatory show that for every 100,000 Caracas residents there are 122 murders per year