Repent! Repent! Grid Parity is Nigh!
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hearing dire warnings that unless Venezuela got its act together, it could just plain miss the short critical window...
Tarjeta Única, and Four Documents Nobody Has Seen
Last night, MUD Secretary General Chuo Torrealba announced the opposition coalition has agreed to go to December 6th elections with a “Tarjeta Única”: a single spot on the...
905 Error. Rights Not Found.
The extraordinary ongoing battle for control of the Cota 905 shantytown shows the full extent of the Animalfarmification of the Venezuelan state. In Animal Farm, Orwell brilliantly shows...
Pablo Pérez's Turn
The outbreak of arbitrary elections disqualifications continues, as the Venezuelan government goes all in on that old democratic dictum: if you can’t beat ’em, ban ’em. Now it’s former...
Seeing ourselves in PEMEX's mirror
Pity Mexico’s oil sector reformers. After a bitter, hard-fought, multi-decade campaign to open the oil sector to foreign investment, they put together a landmark auction…and the thing flops. ...
"It's way too dangerous here, I'm going back to Gaza..."
The AP has a great report by Hannah Dreier (in Spanish here) on Palestinian medical students who get to Caracas, scope the place out, and make a b-line for...
El discurso que ha debido dar Capriles
After my harsh critique of Capriles’s economic policy speech yesterday, plenty of you wanted me to put up or shut up: if not that, what? In that spirit,...
Worse than Wrong: Meaningless
Capping off a horrifically depressing news day, Henrique Capriles gave a “major speech” on economic policy today that barely merited the name. Capriles portrayed himself as presenting a short-term...
¡Sal de Ese Cuerpo, Pablo Medina!
Some very strange things are happening to Venezuelan political discourse. These days, our radical right-wingers sound more or less exactly like…Pablo Medina! Check out Freddy Guevara’s line on...
The thing about having a really crazy economic policy framework
Economists love to go on and on about “relative price distortions” – one of those inexplicable pieces of jargon that normal people just can’t make sense of. In...
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