The Memo OPEC Never Got
It used to take ten years for market forces to catch up with OPEC production cuts. Now it takes a couple of weeks.
Jones, Serrano, and the Tyranny of People Who Know WTF They're Talking About
It's not just that Trump and Maduro have a disturbing tendency to believe things that are plainly false, it's that they turf out their understanding of the world to obvious charlatans.
Rocketing past Parity
As the bolivar goes into free fall, we mark an especially poignant milestone: the brief instant the bolivar reached 1-to-1 parity with the Colombian peso, before rocketing right past it.
The Worst Latin American
Has any other Latin American done as much damage in a single lifetime as Fidel Castro? It's...not even close.
The government steals medicine donated by the Catholic church
What the Humanitarian Channel looks like in practice.
A Crisis Humanitarians Can't Ignore
I spent years reading the IRIN website for news about the world's absolutely worst places. Now, they run news about Venezuela.
Home Depot Orange is the New Black Market
The Venezuelan government is being destabilized by a part-timer. Yes. Really. Click through for the scarcely-believable details.
Venezuela Storms Out of OAS Session In Support of Venezuelan Position
OAS thought it could cunningly manipulate Venezuela into supporting it by approving a declaration Venezuela might as well have written. No such luck.
Monopoly Money
Calling the bolivar "Monopoly money" is an insult...to Monopoly money.
An Agreement Binding Only On Us
If the government won't accept a new Supreme Tribunal, mediation is a farce. (And the government won't accept a new Supreme Tribunal.)
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