The healthiest breakup in the world
This second clip from Capriles’ appearance yesterday with Luis Chataing impressed me even more than the previous one. Here, he talks about being grounded, about his grandmother, about...
Keeping it simple
I woke up to read my friend Setty’s account of his few hours in Caracas. So far, he senses a lot of enthusiasm for Chávez on the street,...
There's a Mercal for Dollars and it's called Cadivi
This little video is just too cool: the center-left data nerd’s case against the undercover backwards wealth redistribution of the Chávez era. Listen, I don’t actually think this...
Waste born of corruption, amplified by mismanagement and entrenched by lack of accountability and ideological rigidity.
Over on FP.com, pivoting off of that Reuters’ report on Fonden, I try to explain the way your morning paper will lie to you about Venezuela this week....
Chavismo now kinda hearts blackouts
The Chavernment has tried everything to spin the years-long problem of power outages around the country, from blaming the weather to denounce them as sabotage, and even pointing...
"Sensation of insecurity" Chronicles, cont'd.
Ramon Maldonado, third in the hierarchy of the Venezuelan Criminal Police (CICPC) and former head of its Anzoátegui delegation was the latest victim of crime in Caracas this...
The Chinese are also boliburgueses
A couple of articles to make your head spin. Charlie Devereux has a terrific piece for Bloomberg on China’s influence on Venezuela. Charlie, perhaps motivated by our little...
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