Reductio ad sundecopium
Usually, when economists make the case for the futility of price controls, they’ll stress the impossible information problem involved. If it was just a matter of regulating 5...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
A day of extraordinary degradation at the National Assembly
Diosdado Cabello’s National Assembly seems determined to keep plumbing new depths. Yesterday’s session, culminating in this extraordinary homophobic tirade against Henrique Capriles’s chief of staff at the Miranda...
The Antidote to Collective Amnesia
Wow! I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this site before. The concept behind SoloPromesas.com is disarmingly simple: the site aggregates promises made publicly by various office-holders in Venezuela...
Sometimes lightning is just lightning
It’s probably wisest to resist drawing any wider inferences from the refinery fire in Puerto La Cruz yesterday. Silly though it sounds, it really is true that sometimes...
A sense of scale
Here’s The Economist’s recent article on corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela, in graphical form…
The Normal Politics Trap
The question now is what will collapse sooner: Venezuelans’ confidence in the government or the opposition’s confidence in MUD’s leadership. I think of it as a kind of...
The Chery on Top (FUBAR)
Story FUBAR: Gah, it’s been a terrible week for corrections. Turns out Great Wall de Venezuela was not a Chinese firm at all, it was a Venezuelan firm...
We're Gonna Party Like It's 1989 (UPDATED)
Victor Salmerón’s latest in El Universal left me rechecking my calendar to make sure we’re not in January 1989. Las reservas internacionales, el tanque de divisas que permite...
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