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It’s MY day. It’s not my birthday. And Saint Anne’s Feast Day is July 26th. It’s my day because, on Tuesdays, Venezuelans with ID numbers ending in 2 and...
It’s MY day. It’s not my birthday. And Saint Anne’s Feast Day is July 26th. It’s my day because, on Tuesdays, Venezuelans with ID numbers ending in 2 and...
I have a pretty busy day today, but keep an eye out for what is happening in Lausanne in the negotiations between the world’s powers and Iran. Apparently,...
Dear reader, Are you tired of the delays in the publication of official economic statistics? Do you feel a desperate urge to measure the magnitude of the economic crisis? We...
Two great pieces from two friends-of-the-blog, both of them at Harvard University, both of them in Spanish. First off, Francisco Monaldi goes deep on hyperinflation in El Nacional. Francisco...
Some of you know that I live in a house as the sole male surrounded by four wonderful ladies. Yet as a man happily subdued, I have been trained to...
The head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), well-known chavista hack Alicia Bárcena, was in Caracas yesterday. While she was there, she praised...
On Tuesday, a rumour swept Caracas that a child had been kidnapped by a stranger in – depending on the version of the story you heard – either Petare...
A few days ago, Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev published a story on the black market for bullets. After reading it, one comes away with the clear impression that the military’s...
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry's response to the latest imperialist threat has been mediocre and uninspired. Worry not, Americans, thanks to the MUD, there's still hope that some will take your plans to invade seriously.
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