No soap for you!!
Watch what happens when a Venezuelan woman tries to buy soap two days in a row. Turns out that, in Venezuela, you can indeed be too clean. Fancy scanners...
Happy Monday, everyone!
Warning – don’t watch this before having your Monday morning coffee. I’m just gonna refrain from commenting on this one because I think y’all can do a much...
All because of a broken fingernail
(A reader sends us this translation of an interview with Marvinia Jiménez that appeared in El Carabobeño, a Valencia daily, a few weeks ago. Marvinia was brutally attacked...
Give us the CNE
Dear UNASUR Foreign Ministers: Thank you for your interest in the Venezuelan conflict. Now that you helped make the OAS a veritable “circus,” we can start discussing the visit...
As close as you get to neutral
This report by my friend Cristián Arriagada for Chile’s Teletrece is as close as you get to objective reporting on Venezuela. I think it’s very well made. (In Spanish).
Just win an election
Daniel Ceballos, the mayor of San Cristóbal, was arrested in Caracas tonight. The person confirming this was the Interior Minister. I suggest we allow a few moments to...
The hidden numbers of Chávez's legacy, by @danielragua
(Friend of the blog Daniel Raguá sends us this corollary to Dorothy’s latest post) Never mind inflation, scarcity, and all the rest. Here are some hidden nuggest in...
Four minutes with the students
If the students’ goal was to summarize their case, their rage, their energy, and their determination in four brief minutes in a Youtube video … mission accomplished. I...
The roadmap, part IV: saving our way to prosperity
(This is the fourth part in a series of essays exploring the common policy choices made by high-growth countries, and what Venezuela needs to do to implement them....
Venezuela's perilous path to dialogue
When The Daily Beast asked me for another post, I decided to touch upon why it is so hard for Venezuelans from different sides of the aisle to...
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