A grim goodbye
I left Venezuela yesterday after spending ten days there. I have tons of things I want to write about once I get my thoughts in order, but one...
Economy
Government does something not-crazy, scrambles to hide it
Did you hear? Venezuela raised gasoline prices yesterday. Not nationwide, of course: just locally, in areas near the Colombian border where gasoline smuggling had become completely rampant. Pumps nearest the...
Thirteen conversations about one thing
Being back in Caracas after many months provides a plethora of opportunities for blogging. And while there is much to say about the big issues, curiously I’ve had numerous...
Things they don't teach you about in Stanford
There is an interesting piece in the Business Section of the [increasingly indispensable] Wall Street Journal focused on PDVSA President Eulogio del Pino. I wouldn’t call it a...
Is Greece-zuela a possibility?
Greece has defaulted on one of its many liabilities to its creditors by missing a €1.5 billion of its debt to the IMF. The Greek economy has already taken quite a...
Tracking down the Benjamins
For the second week in a row, Fusion’s Manuel Rueda has published an eye-catching piece on Venezuela. In this one, he tracks down the owner of DolarToday, the...
The formaldehyde revolution - sans formaldehyde
When writing about Venezuela, one has to juggle with an embarassment of riches – there is so much crap going on, that sometimes it’s hard to select the right story that...
The election needs to be bought
It’s distressing to think about the Venezuelan government’s latest financial moves. Not for what the moves entail, necessarily, but because of the obvious reason that is driving them....
#BCVleaks: Central Bank employees air the dirty laundry
Nelson Merentes, the President of the Central Bank of Venezuela (“BCV”), seems to have a bit of a soft mutiny in the ranks. A group from the bank’s technical...
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