Affiliate & advertising disclosure
Our editorial independence and how compensation relationships work — explained plainly.
The short version
Some links on VenezuelaInvestor are affiliate links. If you click one and open an account, complete a transaction, or sign up for a service, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. This is a standard way to fund publications that don't paywall their content.
What this never affects:
- Whether we mention a product, broker, exchange, or bank in our comparison tables
- How we rank or describe options
- The accuracy of any information presented
- Whether we report on negative aspects of a service we may have an affiliate relationship with
How we choose what to cover
We cover products and services based on their relevance to the Venezuelan diaspora — period. Binance P2P is the dominant USDT exchange venue for venezolanos, so we cover it. Interactive Brokers offers the best low-cost global brokerage access from Colombia and Spain, so we recommend it. Bancolombia is the largest bank in Colombia, so it gets full coverage in our banking comparisons. None of these depend on whether we have or don't have an affiliate relationship.
If we recommend a service, it's because it genuinely serves the reader's situation — not because of compensation.
Categories of compensation
Affiliate referral programs. We may participate in referral programs offered by financial services platforms — including crypto exchanges (Binance, Bitso), brokers (Interactive Brokers), remittance services (Wise, Remitly), and similar. When you click an affiliate link and sign up, the platform pays a referral fee.
Display advertising. We may run display advertising (Google AdSense or similar networks). These ads are served programmatically by the ad network and labeled as advertisements. They have no relationship to our editorial coverage.
Sponsored content. If we ever publish sponsored content (we currently don't), it will be clearly labeled as "Sponsored" at the top of the article. Sponsored content does not affect coverage in other articles.
What we don't accept. Payment for editorial coverage; payment to remove negative coverage; payment to rank a product higher in a comparison; payment that requires undisclosed editorial concessions of any kind.
How to identify affiliate links
Most affiliate links are visible from their URL structure (containing referral codes or known affiliate domains). We also tag them with rel="sponsored" when applicable, which is the W3C-recommended attribute for affiliate/paid links.
Pure editorial links (citations to OFAC, IRS, Banco de la República, primary sources, news outlets) are never affiliate links.
The economic reality
Publishing rigorous, source-cited financial guides at the depth we do requires resources. We've chosen affiliate compensation and display advertising as our primary revenue model because they don't restrict access for readers — the entire site is freely available without paywalls, registrations, or gates.
The alternatives — subscription paywalls, sponsored articles, paid coverage placements — all create worse editorial incentives. Our model lets us cover Venezuelan financial reality honestly while keeping the doors open for all venezolanos who need the information.
If something seems off
If you ever feel that an article reads like it was written to drive affiliate clicks rather than to inform you, please email us at natasofvives@gmail.com. Editorial integrity is the only durable asset a publication has, and we take it seriously.
Updates
This disclosure may be updated as our compensation relationships evolve. Material changes will be noted with an update date below.
Last updated: May 24, 2026