Destruction is good for us
The final moments of Quico’s "el loco comemierda" post left me wanting more. He wrote, "But remember: it’s the economy, stupid. It always is. More than the crazy...
Dollars also have zero nutritional value
The quote of the day comes from the lovable chavista congresswoman Iris Varela, showing off her impressive knowledge of basic economics: "The people earn their wages in bolivars,...
What does NoyNoy have to do with you?
The Phillipines, you ask?! What on Earth does this have to do with us? One word: Smartmatic. The money quote from The Economist: "In electing Mr Aquino, voters used...
Waiting for the other red shoe to drop
The government has signalled pretty decisively the end of the Parallel Market as we know it, but it’s not clear what will take its place. The only thing...
Loco es el que come mierda
It’s a hardy perennial of Venezuelan political divination: "is Chávez losing it?" To answer that, I think we have to refer back to that unbelievably rude but prescient criollo saying:...
Chávez vs. the blogs
Hugo Chávez has finally lost it. In his increasingly desperate attempts to control the parallel market for dollars, he has denounced the "Dólar Paralelo" blog, which regularly lists...
The reds and the populist
<p> Red-shirted demonstrators from the urban and rural poor show their support for a populist, controversial, heavy-handed, yet popular leader, by confronting the forces of the elite in...
Alternative Vote Minus
The thing to grasp here is that nobody set out to design the system we have. It evolved from a chavista Marramucia (dirty trick) and ended up enshrined...
Crazy Non-Sequitur Chronicles
2-OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza notes that this kind of open interference in neighboring countries’ elections is probably not strictly within the rules of engagement in hemispheric...
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