Don't know who Juan S. Montes is? Maybe you should...
The senior PDVSA manager (a.k.a. “Black”) is fingered for pocketing some US$35.7 million in bribes from Francisco Illarramendi to make his PDVSA Ponzi Scheme possible. Much more detail...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
El Chigüire Gives Up
This feels historic, somehow. Venezuela’s premier source of satire bows to the evident: you just can’t parody a movement this good at parodying itself.
How can people this inept win? By militarizing the mobilization effort, that's how!
For those of you keeping score at home, this is what Campaign 2013 is about according to Planet Maduro: The hateful opposition deserves our vengeance, love is the...
The Human Face of the Rotten Lettuce Scam
Over on Bloomberg, Joshua Goodman and Charlie Devereux put a human face on the sprawling Lechuga Verde fraud: One teacher said he needed to shuttle out of the country...
You canNOT be serious!
Over on ForeignPolicy’s Transitions blog, Juan rues the state of the quickie campaign: The spectacle continues. Maduro announced that Hugo Chávez would be embalmed, only to backtrack a few days...
Piñata Ethics (Updated)
So I got myself in a bit of trouble yesterday. My wife, who is very not-Venezuelan read Emiliana’s story about the Semana Santa operativos with evident alarm. But worse was to come when she...
Book of the Week: Comandante
Rory Carroll’s Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week: an abridged version is being read on air in five instalments – 10 minutes each...
GoogleHangout with David Frum
A wide-ranging discussion with David Frum about Venezuela, the U.S., and what Venezuelan democracy activists can learn from the experience of Eastern Europe.
0% Vickrey
So after much confusion, I finally found a reasonable explanation of the SICAD’s Auction mechanism, courtesy of Bank of America. The long and the short of it is that...
Sistema Complementario de Administración Monetaria - SCAM
Just when you thought the government’s arcane currency control system couldn’t get any weirder, along comes the Complementary System for Currency Administration (officially SICAD, though I still think...
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