Trip Advisor: Caracas
Sounds like a luvly place for a vacation, huh? The start of the season for two premier teams in this baseball-loving nation was thrown into doubt after thieves...
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Reuters on Fire
Two great, eye-opening pieces on Venezuela landed from Reuters yesterday. First, Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea delve into the inscrutable mystery of ¿dónde están los reales del SICAD? The...
The roadmap, part III: Creating an ecosystem for growth
(A series of posts on how Venezuela can begin to grow again. For some background, see here and here) The second regularity the authors find in The Growth...
Five Surprising Facts About the Post-Chavez Era
Some things, we expected: in a dozen interviews in the days after Chávez died, I kept repeating that Maduro wouldn’t have any of the three key assets – money,...
The only thing we have to be anxious about is anxiety itself
Does the thought of First Lady Combattant Cilia Flores seeding relatives all through the upper echelons of the Venezuelan state render you anxious? See, that right there is...
The kind of video Nicolas Maduro doesn't want you to see...
I don’t know about you, but for me, Nicolás is right: watching this made me deeply anxious. [Hat tip: mah sugar daddy…]
An 18-Wheeler Named Venezuela
Some things, I feel, need to be said in Spanish. In cases like that, I take to PanfletoNegro. Desde el día que nos llevamos por delante ese puente...
Una de Hormigas y Parchitas
Kudos to El Nacional for writing up some of the detail of (one of) the megabucks scams at Bandes (a.k.a., the Economic and Social Development Bank, a.k.a., the place-where-both-our-current-and-former-Central-Bank-heads...
Dear @Forbes, do you realize what @HilaryKramer is using your brand for?!
Setty in full rant mode is a force of nature. A thing of beauty. A real joy. Do not miss his epic takedown of the appalling Derwick fluff...
The Lexical Innovations of the Revolution
Let us all thank Jorge Giordani that this phrase is now in a Bloomberg headline. From the piece itself… One dollar buys 41.2 bolivars on the black market,...
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