New budget = New military toys
The Chavernment presented this week its blueprint for the 2013 National Budget, which includes a huge total: 396.406 Millions of Bs. (33% higher than its predecessor). FONDEN and...
Economy
Another milestone for the revolution
The World Bank’s “Doing Business 2013” report just came out. It measures the favorability of different countries toward business, by putting together a series of indicators such as...
SIDOR is in free fall
Poor, poor SIDOR. It has been a rough week for the State-owned iron and steel company: cargo handlers have been on strike, third-party workers insist on joining the...
Police deployment chronicles
The Bolivarian National Police is slowly expanding its operations around the country. This week, 880 agents of the PNB will start patrolling in Carabobo State, with special attention...
Petrochequera mata galán
Over on the IHT, I process my despecho and get down to brass tacks in my Monday morning quaterbacking. It wasn’t the REP. It wasn’t the lop-sided media access....
There's a Mercal for Dollars and it's called Cadivi
This little video is just too cool: the center-left data nerd’s case against the undercover backwards wealth redistribution of the Chávez era. Listen, I don’t actually think this...
Chavismo now kinda hearts blackouts
The Chavernment has tried everything to spin the years-long problem of power outages around the country, from blaming the weather to denounce them as sabotage, and even pointing...
The Chinese are also boliburgueses
A couple of articles to make your head spin. Charlie Devereux has a terrific piece for Bloomberg on China’s influence on Venezuela. Charlie, perhaps motivated by our little...
Margarita Airport users can't get a break
The situation at the Santiago Mariño International Airport (which serves Margarita Island) has not improved after its recent change of management. In fact, some problems are getting worse since...
Could our freakout become their October surprise?
It’s an underexplored question: our presidential elections happen to come just 30 days before Gringoistan heads to the polls. Which means in a Plan Aterra scenario where the...
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