A Caracas City Shuffle
Venezuela’s government is about to unleash the biggest economic reform set forth in the last 11 years. A currency market is about to be set in place, with far...
Economy
The Cadivi Barricades
Quico Toro, the founder of this blog, wrote an OpEd for yesterday’s New York Times in which he ponders the reasons for the massive protests currently rocking Venezuela....
The challenge of Venezuela's urban poverty
One of the things few of our politicians talk about is how to transform our slums into engines of growth. Sure, we talk about the barrios a lot...
SICAD II, the sequel, coming to theaters Feb 24th
In the midst of social crisis, an airline boycott and massive amount of bolivar liquidity Ramirez announced that SICAD II will be launched on Feb 24th. Not many details...
El Gran Viraje, 25 years on
Twenty-five years ago today, Venezuela’s recently inaugurated president gave a speech. It is safe to say that few speeches have been as momentuous or significant as the one...
Busting the myth of the Law of Fair Prices
FACT: on January 20, 2014, during an interview televised by Venevisión, Andreína Tarazón –National Superintendent for the Defense of Socio-Economic Rights- said that the Law of Fair Prices...
Desmontando mitos: La Ley de Precios Justos
HECHO: el 20 de enero de 2014, Andreína Tarazón –Superintendente Nacional para la Defensa de los Derechos Socio-Económicos- dijo en una entrevista concedida a Venevisión que la Ley de...
Risky business
The other day, my brother told me how relieved he was at having been able to purchase a ticket to the United States for an upcoming business meeting....
Busting the myth of Polar's debt
FACT: on January 22, 2014, AVN published an article titled “Polar doesn’t need dollars at the –cheap- Cadivi rate to produce”. The starting point of the piece is...
Desmontando mitos: la deuda con Polar
HECHO: el 22 de enero de 2014, la agencia AVN publicó una nota titulada “Polar no requiere divisas de Cadivi para producir”. El punto de partida del escrito...
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