How to give Juan Nagel a heart attack in two minutes and 21 seconds...
As the hat-tipee put it, “Son tan descarados que no les importa usar la verdad como argumento.” [Hat tip: Moncho.]
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Wartime economic dislocations, without a war
I couldn’t get the chart itself, but The blurb under Monday’s Bloomberg Chart of the Day tells its own story: The bolivar is one of only five currencies...
Eulogia's Struggle
Over in Centro Gumilla’s SIC, Sebastián de la Nuez is on a tear in this long-form piece on the day-to-day life of one barrio family, where Eulogia, on her...
The fictional dollar gets a little bit less fictional
And so it’s official: the bolivar has been devalued to Bs.6.30:$1, with the never-well-pondered SITME mechanism abolished. On paper, a 46.5% 31.7%* devaluation should be huge news. The reality is...
Paquetapocalypse Later
This Bloomberg piece describing changes in chavista financial management sort of raises more questions than answers, if you ask me. According to Joshua Goodman and Charlie Devereux, this… Last...
Yesterday on NPR: Me and Kimi vs. Every Leftie in the Bay Area
So I was on a Bay area NPR show up against a couple of random chavistas yesterday: you can listen to the recording here. Listen closely at 4:44 to...
A bizarre Goebbelsian spectacle
I don’t have a lot to say about yesterday’s bizarre Goebbelsian spectacle with Diosdado Cabello (of all friggin’ people) accusing Primero Justicia of widespread corruption except that it confirms...
Gran Mision Mad Rush to Catch Up After Years of Broken Promises
Even after the home-buidling boom of the year ahead of the 2012 presidential vote, chavismo still hasn’t caught up with the puntofijo years’ pace… [Hat tip: Transparencia Venezuela.]
Some things are priceless; your currency shouldn't be one of them
So these two stories have been making the rounds recently. The first has Caracas as the 9th most expensive city in the world (comically sandwiched between Paris and...
To recall is to live
On February 5th, 1992, Caldera sided with Chávez and Fidel Castro sided with Carlos Andrés Pérez. I’ve always been struck by what a grubby, squalid little Myth of Origin...
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