The litmus test
“If he can make getting a cédula easier, then I will consider supporting him.” I remember thinking and saying this back in 1999, when Hugo Chávez was first...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Going south, deep in the red, yet surviving
The liquidation of my sorta-hometown bookstore today brought mixed feelings. I’m sad to see a place that I visited so often go down in flames. But on the other...
An open letter to foreign correspondents in Venezuela
It’s based on this snarky little post we wrote a few months ago. The full letter is in the Spanish language blog. Bottom line: don’t cite GIS XXI...
Chuspa Chronicles
Don’t miss The Great Miguel’s latest post on the dashed revolutionary hopes of the fishermen in Chuspa. It’s an amazing read.
Cubazuela Chronicles
“This is where I bring the Cubans,” he says. I’m with my buddy Joaquín. We’re in one of those upscale Caracas cafés that makes you wonder what people...
Conditional cash transfers suck ...
… or so says this new paper by Javier Báez of the World Bank and Adriana Camacho of Bogotá’s Universidad de los Andes. The authors wants to measure the long-term...
What the game looked like when it changed
I got a Moody’s Investor Report from a friend. The money quote is actually the graph above. It shows what the game looked like, according to Consultores 21,...
Enter the lady
Congresswoman María Corina Machado has apparently entered the opposition’s primary fight. Her campaign slogan? ¡Viene María! I’m in no position to judge whether or not that slogan is...
The non-event of the day
The other day we were being accused – perhaps rightly so – of being too partial to Primero Justicia. So … I’m doing my darnedest to ignore what...
Chavistas mourn Bin Laden (Updated)
Well, that didn’t take long. A mere hours after Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been found and killed in a Pakistani mansion, chavista officials were...
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