PDVSA's Garish May Production Collapse
To see the single most destructive trend in Venezuela today, forget about CLAPs, about colas, the TSJ or the CNE or the CIA. Look, instead, to PDVSA's production statistics.
Henri and the Challenge of Stability in Transition
Taking power from chavismo? That's the easy part. The hard part comes later, when you need to stabilize the country against an organized, armed, trained chavista paramilitary opposition. Henri Falcón has thought this through. The rest of MUD hasn't.
In One Way, God Does Provide
Reuters' Alexandra Ulmer has a piece on how the mango went from seasonal treat to lifeline in Venezuela.
A Moratorium on the Isms
Socialism doesn't work. We know that. End of debate. Is it? No. It is not.
"Like those people who win the lottery and go bankrupt within a year..."
Joanna Hausmann (yes relation) has a rant with a difference this week. As a five minute introduction to Venezuela for the curious-but-clueless, it's hard to do better.
Et tu, Macri?
Why on earth is Argentina trying to block application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter in Venezuela? The tawdry story follows.
Misery Porn as Clickbait
The craziest damn thing has started happening to the stuff I write about Venezuela abroad...people are clicking on it.
MedioMalo Presidente
This 2008 propaganda clip is an amazing historical document. It's worth watching. And re-watching. And re-watching.
From the Archive: Living Out Your Own Counterfactual
I wrote this post in September 2013, before I'd really met Moisés Naím, let alone started writing with him. The price of oil was at $111, and the term "economic degeneracy" already described our situation. It's only gotten more relevant in the three years since.
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