The foreign correspondent's POV

Katy says: Posting will be light in the next few days. Quico is traveling and I’m full of work and family duties. But friend and all-too-infrequent poster Lucía...

Katy says: Posting will be light in the next few days. Quico is traveling and I’m full of work and family duties. But friend and all-too-infrequent poster Lucía sends us a link of yet another foreigner’s impression of the full Venezuelan treatment.

The traffic, the wait in the hospital, the milk shortages, the panaderías, the lushness of the Ávila – it’s all there in the diary of The Economist correspondent’s life in our maddening capital city.