Is Venezuela dipping into recession?
Before devaluing the Bolívar, the government was predicting Venezuela would grow by 6% in 2013. We already addressed how this was way higher than what most other people...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
27F, from East to West
Two articles, both published by Prodavinci (in Spanish), are the best thing I’ve read lately on the Caracazo. The first, by Mayé Primera, tells the story of Hilda...
Dead men don't pay
“Right now, I have six of them ready to go that I can’t ship because there’s no glass.” I’m sharing a few beers with an old friend. A...
Three from the FP
Three articles you might find interesting in Foreign Policy. The first is a searing summary of Hugo Chávez’s impact on Venezuelan politics, by our friend Phil Gunson. It’s...
Amuay = devaluation?
Today marks the six-month “anniversary” of the explosion in the Amuay Refining Complex. Aside from being a massive tragedy, Amuay could have also been responsible for the devaluation...
Venezuela gives me a migraine
(Overheard at Jeffrey’s Cafe, in Maracaibo) Me: My migraines have been acting up ever since I got here. I think I’m not getting enough caffeine. That tends to...
Dehumanization chronicles
Sometimes, when we write that chavismo aggressively dehumanizes its opponents, people accuse us of hyperbole. In fact, if anything we’re erring on the side of literalism. Yesterday, Information...
Adrift in Caracas
I’m in Venezuela this week visiting friends and family, so I’m not going to be posting much. However, I did want to convey the very strong sense that...
Hedging on Venezuela
CNBC has an interesting article on the companies that are taking a hit thanks to Giordani et al. They provide some detail into the issue of why these...
The oilman who came in from the cold
A friend from Washington writes about this bit of seriously unreported news: Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil giant and one of the Kremlin’s most...
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