Los Tiempos de Bogotá son Perfectos
As you may have guessed, I have something of a complex about writing in Spanish. (I was only educated in Venezuela through the sixth grade, so I always feel slightly like I’m skating on thin ice.)
Which is why I’m really excited to be published, with the benefit of some really great editing, in Spanish outside Venezuela for the first time…ever?!…with this piece on the Economy Maduro inherits, in Bogotá’s El Tiempo today.
En la república bolivariana el proceso ha sido más gradual: la economía socialista es como una capa que se solapa con estructuras capitalistas preexistentes que todavía funcionan, aunque mal, y cada vez peor. Las contradicciones que esto engendra son ya famosas. En Caracas, hoy por hoy, es mucho más fácil conseguir una botella de whisky importado de Escocia que una caja de leche; un fino aceite de oliva extravirgen italiano, que un litro de aceite de maíz para freír una arepa.
[Hat tip: Birdman]
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