Moron Risk
It’s hard to pick out which is the more munificent of the money quotes in Katia Porzecanski’s Bloomberg piece about Wall Street investment banker types mobbing the Manhattan law...
Economy
Latin American integration for sale (with a WSJ update)
Hugo Chávez was a man whose rhetoric could only be matched by his wallet. For example, he used to boast about how Petrocaribe, the financing scheme whereby Venezuela sold oil...
Searching for a narrative
(A guest post by Venezuelan economist and Harvard Research Fellow José Ramón Morales, despairing at the pervasiveness of populist discourse, even in the face of a bankrupt economy)...
The plan is ...
So what did Venezuelan President Maduro say yesterday after Venezuela suffered a heavy blow at the OPEC meeting? Basically, we will not cut anything significant in the budget. Social and military investment...
Fire Ramírez
Today’s OPEC meeting in Vienna has all the makings of a turning point in the history of oil, and Venezuela. In agreeing not to cut oil production quotas in the...
A benchmark for our troubles
This has been a gruesome year for Venezuela. But as our economy collapses, economists are finding it hard to assess just how screwed up we are, since Venezuela’s Central Bank refuses to...
Low oil prices don't kill people
Imagine blaming the rain for the leaks in your ceiling. It doesn’t make sense, right? And yet this is what is going on in Venezuela’s public sphere, as...
Keystone XL Isn't a Threat to the Environment; It's a Threat to Venezuela
News filtered down this week that, to try to help hanging-by-a-thread Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu, the outgoing Senate Democratic leadership may allow a vote on the Keystone XL...
Why is there inflation?
Our friends from Seis por Derecho give us the lowdown. In Spanish.
"I'm a bachaquero"
(It was starting to get lonely being the only zuliano on the blog, so I did something about it. Meet Roberto Torres Luzardo, a talented journalist based in Maracaibo,...
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