Jaime Lusinchi, 1924-2014
Jaime Lusinchi, whose 1984 to 1989 presidency is remembered as possibly the least competent of the 1936-1999 period, died last night in Caracas. The last of the old-style Acción...
Adjustment or collapse? The case for collapse
As the debate about whether Venezuela is facing macroeconomic adjustment or macroeconomic collapse rages on, some traders* at giant Japanese investment bank Nomura make the case for collapse about as succinctly as is...
De Lima is Out of Cadena Capriles. (Owner Still In Closet)
David de Lima, the cartoon-bad-guy political commissar sent to keep Cadena Capriles’s employees in line, is reportedly out of a job, after having taken a bull’s approach to...
Una Biografía Que es Puro Cuento
This…errr…how to put it? This…this. Ummm…this is. This. Uhhh. This…I mean, uh, this. O sea…THIS coño.
What adjustment is, and what it isn't
In the wake of the Red Adjustment, Venezuela is on its way to macroeconomic stability. It’s a statement that seems especially prone to misunderstanding, so maybe it’s not surprising...
I Visualized May Wrong
Back on February 22nd, I wrote “Visualize May”: an exasperated and – in retrospect – badly misguided post about the uselessness of the nascent protest movement. Well, it’s May now,...
Tal Día Como Hoy en 1967
It’s May 8th. Quick: do you know what happened 47 years ago today? (Reblogged from 2012)
When "Sustainable" is a Four-Letter Word
So Anabella and Barbara, I think you’re right, but you still go to jail. The Planning Ministry powerpoint leaked to ABC.es certainly made for some juicy reading showing how...
Maduro's Barbarism, documented in granular detail
It’s not that those of us who follow Venezuela are in any doubt about the scale of Human Rights violations the country has witnessed this year. It’s that,...
Bloomberg subtly mangles its takedown of a big, failing chavista Co-Op
As Juan noted earlier, over on Bloomberg, Anatoly Kurmanaev takes the grand tour of the oversized, underused William Lara Agricultural Commune near Calabozo, in Guarico State, The harvesters imported...
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