The PSUV outsources to China
The recently named Vice-President of China Li Yuanchao visited Venezuela and met with Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Palace to sign a new batch of deals between both governments....
Gas prices and car ownership
An interesting post about Venezuelan gasoline consumption from UC Berkeley Professor of Economics Lucas Davis. He says that Venezuelans don’t own more cars per capita than comparable countries...
Lorenzo Mendoza, prophet of privatization
Lorenzo Mendoza, CEO of Venezuela’s largest private company (Polar), gave a searing press conference yesterday. In it, Mendoza thoroughly debunked the myth that people can’t find corn flour...
A whole LOTTTa trouble
A year ago, Hugo Chávez wrote a little big law that has made it very difficult for companies to do business in Venezuela. Written from his sick bed,...
Luisa Estela is down, but not out
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) selects its leadership at the beginning of the judicial year, every January. This time, it took them until May to finally reach a...
Six years on, they still don't get it.
I first ran the post below all the way back in 2007. It’s both shocking and totally unsurprising that six years on, they still don’t get it. Six...
Exactly how violated is the 1999 constitution?
The thoroughgoing collapse of law-based government in Venezuela has been a constant theme in this blog since 2002. But this week, in a time-wasting exercise of epic proportions,...
It's the economy, Nicolás
Inflation, scarcity, crime, and those damn numbers on people’s arms. I shoot off over at the Transitions blog. My money quote: Taming inflation would require the government to...
More goons, please
Violence in Caracas reached new highs in April, and the numbers so far from May aren’t much better. Given this scenario, Nicolás Maduro announced this week that the...
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