The Petrostate, Visualized
This is just the coolest visualization tool ever. Venezuelan Exports in 1995 Venezuelan Exports in 2010: (These static images don’t really do the visualization-platform justice, you have to...
Economy
Baby steps toward freedom?
This is huge. Apparently, if you’re a person (not a company) and you buy currency through the new SICAD dollar auctions, you can buy as many dollars as...
Even the rectal sovereignty is imported...
To stop the “imperialist plan” to deprive us from toilet paper and making our lives (even more) miserable, the State has joined forces with a major corporation del...
Motorizado nation
With the transformation of the Venezuelan landscape in recent decades, the figure of the motorcyclist (motorizado) has become almost omnipresent not only in the largest cities, but also...
Caracas-one-can-only-dream-of Chronicles
As long-time readers know, traffic in Caracas is one of our favorite topics. This video I caught today reminds me that we haven’t written about it in a...
S&P to Maduro: down you go
Standard & Poor’s downgraded Venezuela’s debt from junk to useless junk. Why should you care? Because the lower our debt rating, the higher the interest rates we have...
Tremendo rollo
My take on the toilet paper crisis in a post that proved very difficult to write, over at the Transitions blog. The value added: Venezuela actually can’t afford...
Is El Chigüire Maduro's new press secretary?
After reading news items like this one, I can only conclude that the trolling of our public sphere is now state policy. In it, we learn that Maduro,...
The end of a long debate
Léelo en Español en Prodavinci. It’s easy to forget that, before chavismo descended into outright farce, there was a genuine intellectual debate to be had about the proper...
The small print
You know the story that ran a few days ago about the Maduro government signing agreements with Chevron and the CNPC to develop some oil fields? Well, according...
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