A Night of Epistemic Closure
First, a confession: I did not watch last night’s misnamed “dialogue”. I didn’t need to. Nor did anyone else. There was no point. We all knew exactly how it...
SICAD II: Lost in Translation
Confused about SICAD II? Wondering whether the new currency exchange system really is a legal, market-based alternative to the black-market, or whether it just plays one on TV? Don’t...
You did WHAT to free health and education programs?!!
“Created” them? Did you just say you created them?! Watch me blow the rest of that gasket over on The New Republic.
The Petrocaribe Trap
A guest post by Alexis Caraballo, who makes her living as a Caribbean regional analyst. A failing economy, where everything for sale in the shops is imported, with dwindling foreign reserves...
The Petrocaribe Trap
A guest post by Alexis Caraballo, who makes her living as a Caribbean regional analyst. A failing economy, where everything for sale in the shops is imported, with dwindling foreign reserves...
1,600 Soldiers vs. One Guarimba in Puerto Ordaz
The month-long shut-down of the La Churuata neighborhood in Puerto Ordaz seems to be over, after a simply huge military action to lift it. Correo del Caroni’s Maisdulin Younis...
F-Rod Pitches a Rabo'e'Cochino
Every few months, Francisco Rodríguez lobs a conceptual hand-grenade at the center of the opposition Conventional Wisdom about the Venezuelan economy. The series of papers he’s written for...
We're not THAT isolated
It was galling to see Venezuelan dissident voices effectively muzzled at OAS today, as the organization voted by 22 countries to 11 to hold a closed-doors session, far...
The Chávez Legacy, Pulverized in 13 Simple Charts
On the brand new FiveThirtyEight.com, Friend of the Blog Dorothy Kronick does the kind of demolition job on Bolivarian Socialism’s record usually associated with a wrecking crew. Eye-opening stuff,...
Why Exchange Rates and Interest Rates are the Al and Peg Bundy of Economic Policy
Did you hear? The government is going to liberalize the dollar-bolivar market! It’s huge news! On paper, the Convenio Cambiario #27 setting up what’s known locally as SICAD2 –...
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