Maduro's Prestige-o-meter
So according to Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights‘s prestige is in a state of catastrophic collapse. The Syrian government, though? They’re peaches. [Highlights...
El Amo del Uncanny Valley
S-Bol’s 229th birthday won’t be an ordinary one. Right in the middle of the presidential campaign, the Chavernment will use it to push its electoral narrative while continue...
The Opposite of Bolivarianism
On S-Bol’s not-so-happy 229th, I’d like to make a rather obvious but not-often-enough-stated point that came to mind reading AUP’s eye-opening Godos, Insurgentes y Visionarios: if Hugo Chávez has...
The original paper by Luis Oliveros and Domingo Sifontes
On the cost of the gasoline subsidy from SIC can be downloaded here – courtesy of GEHA and a scanner. (Don’t worry, the PDF is virus-free.) (No idea...
Not even the economic reporters have basic economic literacy...
How bad is the problem with economic illiteracy in Venezuela? It’s bad enough that even people whose whole job it is to write about the Venezuelan economy for...
A history of Venezuelan democracy in 14 ballots
With a big hat tip to Guillermo Tell Aveledo and Alberto Mérida… The highlight for me?
Pants on Fire Chronicles (Updated)
Chávez’s latest issue ad looks like it’s trying to sell you shoes or sportwear more than like an election spot, so its obviously targeted at the young crowd....
Rafael Ramírez = nepotist ... y pichirre (Updated)
The story of the tragic shooting of Francisco Javier Ramírez, nephew of PDVSA President Rafael Ramírez, is noteworthy on several fronts. For example, I was not aware that...
The cost of Venezuela's oil discounts
$100 billion. That’s how much oil discounts have cost Venezuela since 1999, according to estimations by a group of oil researchers who go by the name of Subaeshi....
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