Calvinball, Habilitante Edition
Looks like Maduro just used his Enabling Law powers to retroactively grant himself s’more Enabling Law powers: El texto definitivo de la ley que se aprobó este martes vino con una...
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Boots and hearts and the demand for money
One way to make Omar Lugo’s dismissal matter is to really stop to understand the front-page spread that got him canned. The story that the regime found so objectionable...
Fired for putting public Central Bank data on the front page of a business newspaper
The crony takeover of Cadena Capriles claims its first big scalp. Omar Lugo has just been fired from his job as Editor of El Mundo Economía y Negocios...
If it's not on the shelves, it's not in the inflation numbers
Steve Hanke’s recent post arguing Venezuela is already in a hyper-inflationary spiral strikes me as wrong in a strange, evanescent kind of way. Even as Hanke accepts the...
Localizing the Crazy that Matters
So (in between changing diapers) I’ve been thinking through why Omar’s latest blog post grabbed me so powerfully. (If you haven’t read it yet, go rectify that now...
Destiny Calling
First off, full disclosure: Omar Z. is a friend – though one I’ve mostly gotten to know through blog stuff – so I’m sure I’m not the most...
Goodbye, "Goodbye Lenin"
Another one for the Only in Venezuela files: days ago, the two main pillars of the State Propaganda Apparatus started broadcasting what they thought was a propaganda film....
Arreaza's Culprit
Days ago, I had a good laugh at VP Jorge Arreaza’s bizarre contention that there was some kind of private conspiracy to jack up the monetary liquidity numbers...
Rigged
In a normal country, this story would be making headlines all over the place. In Venezuela, this week…not so much. Venezuela has quietly seized control of two oil...
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