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Poll Chart: Too Much Noise, Not Enough Signal

Quico says: You asked for it, you got it:Click to expand A few things to note: IVAD is more and more “the government pollster.” A month before the...

Francisco Toro January 31, 2009

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Stagflation's just another word for Catch-22

Quico says: One vital question that’s getting virtually no attention is what the correct policy response would be to the economic crisis likely to hit Venezuela later this...

Francisco Toro January 31, 2009

Life

PDVSA Maula

Quico says: This Dow Jones wire story, by-lined Raúl Gallegos, makes for compelling reading. The entire thing is really quite stunning, but if I had to pick just...

Francisco Toro January 30, 2009

Life

Anything is possible in a country...

…where even the bagres are climbers.

Francisco Toro January 30, 2009

Life

Huffo-ing and puffing

Quico says: The Parable of the Leaves is up on Huffo. Take a minute to write a comment over there, would you?

Francisco Toro January 29, 2009

Life

EIA Settles the Matter

Quico says: The US Department of Energy’s well regarded Energy Information Administration has just put out its latest Country Analysis Brief on Venezuela. After acknowledging methodological and opacity...

Francisco Toro January 29, 2009

Life

Two nuggets of truth from my inbox

Juan Cristobal says: – Excerpts from some email conversations I had yesterday. ————— From: Juan CristobalTo: My friend Roger, [email protected]: What have you heard? Dude,Tell me about the...

Francisco Toro January 28, 2009

Life

The elevator speech

Juan Cristobal says: Imagine you’re working to get someone elected and you run into an undecided voter in an elevator. You have thirty seconds to convince this voter...

Francisco Toro January 27, 2009

Life

Reading the Referendum Tea Leaves

Quico says: I haven’t been writing much about the upcoming referendum on abolishing term limits, for a couple of reasons. The whole thing’s been rushed through so fast...

Francisco Toro January 27, 2009

Life

The Parable of the Leaves

[coming soon on Huffo…] Quico says: Talk about Venezuela these days and people assume the argument splits neatly between two camps: nutty Pat Robertson-style Chavez-hating right-wingers who couldn’t...

Francisco Toro January 26, 2009

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