The Animal Farmification of Venezuelan Politics
Corporate jets owned by a Venezuelan State oil company are being abused by regime cronies to take their families on pleasure trips to Colorado, Hawaii, Australia, Paris, Bilbao and...
The A-to-Z of Violating María Corina Machado's Rights
Chavismo’s animus against Maria Corina Machado, the leading democracy activist who was indicted on trumped-up charges of “conspiracy” today, has reached farcical extremes. Today, attention was focused on whether she would be...
What if it's Diosdado who's vetoing devaluation?
2014 will be remembered as the Year of the Shortage. In Venezuela these days you need a prescription to buy acetominophen, a birth certificate to buy diapers, and...
Name MedioMalo Finance Minister!
For Throwback Thursday, we present MedioMalo, the 2008-era ViVe opposition hate figure who turns out to be far and away Venezuela’s most far-sighted economic forecaster.
Keystone XL Isn't a Threat to the Environment; It's a Threat to Venezuela
News filtered down this week that, to try to help hanging-by-a-thread Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu, the outgoing Senate Democratic leadership may allow a vote on the Keystone XL...
Still Two Sets To Go, Quico
(This is a guest post by a long time reader, MacPapas Medianas, who is writing from the second floor of what was once the highest grossing McDonalds in...
Game, Set, Match...Default
Write it down: November 12th is the day the Great Venezuelan Default Debate of 2013-2014 effectively ended. In a research note circulated this morning to Bank of America...
لا يوجد مواد (= "no hay material" in Arabic)
Do yourself a favor and go read Kejal Vyas’s blog post about what happens when Saudi officialdom collides head on with Hugoslavic chaos. It’s wicked fun.
That was predictable...
All it takes is for Juan to declare a blog break for Reuters to come up with a major scoop. Hats off to Brian Ellsworth for flushing out...
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, 1929-2014
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, the llanero philosopher and author whose dazzling prose did more to illuminate the Venezuelan condition to me than that of any of his contemporaries, died in...
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