The electrical war, cont. (Updated)
Since the official annoucement of the “electrical war” last Thursday by Acting-(Like-a)-President Nicolás Maduro, things didn’t improve this weekend – to the point that some parts of Acarigua...
Economy
Chavenomics inspires a nifty cartoon
Yeah, that pretty much rocked (in Spanish). Kudos to Daniel and Miguel Angel for this.
The electrical war
In a campaign rally in Cojedes today, Acting-(Like-a)-President Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a brand new mission for the electricity sector, focus to fight what he calls an...
Don't know who Juan S. Montes is? Maybe you should...
The senior PDVSA manager (a.k.a. “Black”) is fingered for pocketing some US$35.7 million in bribes from Francisco Illarramendi to make his PDVSA Ponzi Scheme possible. Much more detail...
Sponsored hip-hop
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
0% Vickrey
So after much confusion, I finally found a reasonable explanation of the SICAD’s Auction mechanism, courtesy of Bank of America. The long and the short of it is that...
Sistema Complementario de Administración Monetaria - SCAM
Just when you thought the government’s arcane currency control system couldn’t get any weirder, along comes the Complementary System for Currency Administration (officially SICAD, though I still think...
It's a funny kind of anti-imperialism
Regardless of Nicolás Maduro’s rhetoric, the facts simply speak for themselves: We’re not just dependent on the U.S. as a market for the oil exports that pay for...
Venetur Hotels: where politics come first
Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming ordered via Twitter that Venetur (State-owned company in charge of tourism services, including 14 hotels across the country) not to hire “…anyone who makes...
"Ley Seca" Chronicles (Updated)
The ten-day ban on selling alcoholic beverages, ordered (and later extended) by decree as part of the national mourning period caused economic losses for liquor stores and booze distributors....
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