The electricity crisis is escalating quickly
Failures in the national transmission system produced two major blackouts in the Western part of the country last week: one on Wednesday and another one last Saturday. The...
Adrift in Caracas
I’m in Venezuela this week visiting friends and family, so I’m not going to be posting much. However, I did want to convey the very strong sense that...
Venalum on strike
Since the start of the month, State-owned aluminium producer Venalum has been on strike. Three weeks later, the conflict has heated up between company workers and management, which has brought...
The Long View on Oil-to-China
Over on Global Barrel, Tom O’Donnell makes the case that the Venezuela-China oil relationship has now reached a kind of critical mass that will keep it going far into...
The World is my Podcast
I was on PRI’s The World today talking about The Return. It was fun!
Heckuvajob, Iris!
Prisons Minister Iris Varela admitted in an interview with Últimas Noticias that their staff have access to only seven of the thirty prisons active in Venezuela today. She...
Chávez sneaks in through the bathroom window
So Chávez snuck back into the country at 2:30 in the morning with no previous announcement, no cameras around and only a 3 a.m. tweet to announce the...
A rejoinder on Leopoldo López's indictment
The substance of the accusations being brought 15-years after the fact against opposition leader Leopoldo López don’t merit very much comment, other than to note that that guy must really be squeaky...
Hedging on Venezuela
CNBC has an interesting article on the companies that are taking a hit thanks to Giordani et al. They provide some detail into the issue of why these...
Leopoldo López's future electoral viability bolstered
As the regime moves to put Leopoldo López in jail for the mother of all cold cases, I can’t help but wonder: Has chavismo really thought this one...
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