Dear Nicolás
(An open letter to Nicolás Maduro, courtesy of reader and sometime guest blogger Aquiles LaGrave) Dear Nicolás As a college student, I worked as a plumber to help...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Michelle CAP-chelet
(Note: a rare non-Venezuela post on the Chilean election … viewed from a Venezuelan point of view) It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Michelle Bachelet. After...
Clandestine capitalists
Work hard so you can earn a living. Buy cheap, add value, and sell for a profit. Take a risk, and reap the rewards. These are all basic...
Quico's best post
Welcome Noé Toro Noda, Quico’s first son! This is a crazy world, but you’re going to love it. Feel free to drop them a line in the comments...
Breaking down Maduro-nomics
Maduro. Sunday night: “I have decided, once the Enabling Law is approved, to set percentage limits on earnings in every sector of the economy” Really Nicolás? Every sector?...
Usury: hard to define, but we know it when we see it
Pity poor José Gregorio Fernández. Before a few days ago, nobody knew who he was. Now, he is one of the token prisoners in the government’s war against...
Hang Jim Wyss, to scare the others
In Voltaire’s Candide, the character of Pangloss is hanged as a warning to others. I thought about this when reading the Miami Herald’s Jim Wyss tell, in his...
Meanwhile, back at the farm
Amidst the typhoon of crazy we have had to suffer courtesy of Nicolás Maduro, we haven’t even had time to discuss this more deeply: Maduro has ordered anti-aircraft...
The @naky chronicles
One of the great things about new media is discovering new voices, people who wouldn’t get heard if the public sphere was still in the hands of the...
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