Día Día speaks
(Día Día Practimercados is a small grocery store chain that caters to Venezuelans living in the country’s slums. Last week, they were taken over by the government. The...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Yesterday, Venezuela lost one of its greatest artists. I dare say Pedro León Zapata was THE greatest artist of the last era of our history. Why is this controversial? Zapata...
Hysteresis or survival?
I sometimes wonder why anybody would choose to be an entrepreneur in today’s Venezuela. The risk is enormous, the stress of dealing with the layers upon layers of regulation must...
Earth to Jaua: we're broke
It’s funny how Minister Elías Jaua hasn’t fully realized how broke we are. Last week, the Minister, along with Infrastructure Minister Haiman El-Troudi, gave a bloated press conference...
It's the economic war, stupid!
Ever since scarcity began, Venezuelans were presented with a new phenomenon: “economic war.” Hazily defined and poorly communicated, economic war basically says that someone – the opposition, private industry,...
A brief note about the coming weeks
As many of you know, I live in Chile. February is the time for summer vacation in Chile. February is also the month that Venezuelans who live back...
Sobremesa Chronicles
This has been a rough week for us Venezuelans. Each new day brought with it a new embarassment, most of it having to do with the government. Each...
And we do this for free...
Our co-blogger Emiliana Duarte was on Al Jazeera’s The Stream the other day, sharing her thoughts on Venezuela with, among others, a very unpleasant misinformed gringo chavista (isn’t...
The ex-presidents club
Three former Latin American Presidents – Andres Pastrana of Colombia, Felipe Calderón of Mexico, and Sebastián Piñera of Chile – were in Caracas in the last few days...
UN confirms poverty on the rise in Venezuela
The UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America is finally catching on to what we wrote about months ago: poverty is on a quick ascendancy in Venezuela. The worst part of...
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