Graphs galore!
Twitter is just chock-full’a graphs today. Here’s one from Asdrúbal Oliveros on Venezuela’s car production. Vamos sobre ruedas!These two are from my partners-in-crime at ODH. The first is...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Chart of the week
The Economist, citing a UNDP report, on how rising crime rates have eaten into life expectancy. (HT: AP)
Deer in the headlights
Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres cuts a sad figure. A former military man with little knowledge of the civilian world, he is the public face of the government’s...
The "no comment" revolution
Financial markets are spooked about the last bastion of reason in the Venezuelan government finally falling, according to Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev – whose work continues to be interesting...
International oil community concerned about violence ... in Iraq
An article on violence in Iraq, a country of similar size to Venezuela, courtesy of OilPrice.com. The money quote: “A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq...
Doing $$omething about crime
Crime is the number one issue people care about. The opposition wants to work on the problem. The government seemingly wants to work on the problem (well, judging...
A nice moment from Belén Marrero (UPDATED)
This video of actress Belén Marrero talking about her friend Mónica Spear is not my cup of tea, but something tells me that, in our telenovela-obsessed country, it...
Maracaibo chronicles
An excellent story on smuggling in Zulia state, by Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev and Andrew Willis, on Venezuela’s unlikely and unsustainable path to becoming … a rice exporter! The...
Crime - and nothing else
Mónica Spear and her husband were not the only ones who died yesterday. There was also Guido Méndez, a university professor, and his mother Glory, both killed inside...
Spear to the heart
As the father of a five-year old girl, it’s impossible for me not to be deeply shaken by the horrible fate of former Miss Venezuela Mónica Spear and...
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