The only way is bootleg
Long ago, my family loved to watch movies on the weekends, so visiting the video store became a Saturday ritual. That ritual changed along with technology: from VHS,...
Economy
SIDOR goes into collision course
After Ferrominera’s internal election, the situation inside Guayana’s empresas básicas is getting more intense by the day. Steel-maker SIDOR is undergoing big change. Rafael Gil Barrios, current president of the...
The bachaqueros are still at it
Remember the bachaqueros? The goajiro gasoline smugglers from Zulia State are not taking the recent crackdown on smuggling sitting down. When the Army and the National Guard were...
There's still room for Orimulsion...
Gustavo Coronel, who has the unfair advantage added bonus of actually knowing what he’s talking about, weighs in on the Orimulsión debate: The Orinoco region contains different grades...
Blast from the Past Chronicles: Orimulsion Edition
The Capriles Campaign’s decision to bring back Orimulsion from the dustbin of failed innovation history has introduced something the campaign had almost completely lacked until now – an...
A new benchmark for development
I’ve been traveling through Chile with my family for most of the past week. As is typical when Venezuelans come to Chile, they have been amazed at the...
The backstory on Central Azucarero Sucre
A reader fills in the backstory on Central Azucarero Sucre, where the government has been – ahem – creatively applying its own inamovilidad laboral decree… I first visited...
It's hard out here for a rapidito...
In cities like Barquisimeto, public transport means more than just buses. Some routes are covered by what’s known here as carritos por puesto or rapiditos: passenger cars that...
How to Flout the Layoff Freeze and Live to Tell the Tale
Unpaid severance pay? Mass layoffs? In direct contravention of the inamovilidad laboral decrees? Man, these guys are so getting expropriated! …oh, wait.
Domingo Sifontes and Luis Oliveros up for another round on the gas subsidy
So after the heated controversy in the blog last week, I thought I’d invite Domingo Sifontes and Luis Oliveros to a “derecho a réplica”. Acá la tienen. En...
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