Breaking up is hard to do
Katy says: A few days ago Primero Justicia, Venezuela’s third-largest political party, suffered a public split. A group led by Chacao mayor Leopoldo López (pictured right) and former...
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Six slides is all it takes
There’s something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Because, really, there’s nothing to debate: the way price controls lead...
By the end of this post you will know more about economics than the Venezuelan government...
Quico says: There’s something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Because, really, there’s nothing to debate: the way price...
Lose money or lose your business!
Quico says: Want to know how to blame the retail sector for its own expropriation? Ask yourself this: So, really, the choice is up to you. You can...
Al Qaeda scrambles chavismo's ideological circuits
Quico says: This Al Qaeda threat thing has thrown the Chávez government completely for a loop. This one was definitely not in their play-book, they seem to have...
Al Qaeda: Laying it bare...
Quico says: Imagine you are an enemy of the United States. I don’t mean a rhetorical, fancy-speech giving, UN-podium hoggin’, radical-chic faux-enemy, I mean a real enemy. A...
Illiterate fly stew...
Quico says: By now, it’s more hackneyed cliché than eye-opening parable: if you drop a frog in boiling water, the thing just jumps out, but if you put...
On political common sense
Quico says: Political common sense is a bit like atmospheric pressure – omnipresent, terrifically important, but normally imperceptible to us. Political common sense is an implicit set of...
Chavenomics in a single chart...
Quico says: Pretty much everything you need to know about Chávez’s economic model you can learn from this chart. It’s an economic model of crushing simplicity: 1. Pump...
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