Misery in Venezuela is Off-the-Charts. Literally.
Persistent high inflation is a problem every other country in the world has figured out how to solve: that's one key reason why Venezuela stands alone atop Bloomberg's Misery Index.
Life
The Lies We Tell Ourselves to Have Fun
How do you rebel against the world's most dangerous city and try to have a life? Start with denial, add some bravado, and finish with a hint of criollo BS.
Goodbye, social rights
Today, receiving a social benefit depends on luck or connections. If most of us aren’t guaranteed a minimum of social well being, can we even consider ourselves citizens?
ENCOVI 2016: A Tragedy in Numbers
In Venezuela, the government no longer makes the results of its official household survey public, so independent researchers have started running their own large survey. What they find for 2016 is distressing.
About La Rural
Graduating as a physician in Venezuela means relinquishing all hope of calling the shots over your job, making a decent living, or, in some cases, not breaking the law.
Fear and Loathing in Carnavales
Our exclusive interview with El Rey Momo. En Spanglish cabilla.
Feria Internacional del Sol: Mérida’s Weekend of Tropical Chaos
Dirty streets, risky driving, a penetrating stench of urine in the air, terrible music blaring from every corner and thousands of people getting drunk while watching a bull agonize: for four days every February, Mérida becomes the Capital of the Third World.
64-Bit Caudillismo
In Tropico 4, I discovered that life in a ridiculously over the top Eastern European game designer's delirium of a dysfunctional Banana Republic is...pretty much indistinguishable from what goes on outside my window.
Adrián Solano and the Curse of "Pobrecito, Vale"
Enough has been said about Adrián Solano and his #TropicalMierda take on cross country skiing. Little has been said about the morons who hailed him worthy of defending.
On DICOM, Chavismo Mágico, and Failed Attempts at Randomness
There's an underpaid intern somewhere in a BCV basement office trying his damnedest to make our exchange rate spread look like a random number. He's failing.
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