A letter to a Venezuelan academic
Dear colleague, This is an uncomfortable letter to write. In the past few weeks we have come to the stark realization that our government is bankrupt. Not just...
Life
لا يوجد مواد (= "no hay material" in Arabic)
Do yourself a favor and go read Kejal Vyas’s blog post about what happens when Saudi officialdom collides head on with Hugoslavic chaos. It’s wicked fun.
That was predictable...
All it takes is for Juan to declare a blog break for Reuters to come up with a major scoop. Hats off to Brian Ellsworth for flushing out...
A needed respite
It has been a while since we took some time off on the blog, and before it really starts to show, we might as well pause now. We will...
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, 1929-2014
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, the llanero philosopher and author whose dazzling prose did more to illuminate the Venezuelan condition to me than that of any of his contemporaries, died in...
The $776 lie
Nicolás Maduro raised the minimum wage by 15% last night, starting December 1st. Quickly, government news agencies began spewing the lie – there really is no other way...
Venezuela shows the biggest global drop in the 2014 Prosperity Index
Prosperity is more than just material wealth. It is also the joy of everyday life and the prospect of being able to build an even better one in...
A glass 98% full
In an interesting article in the WSJ in January, an analogy was made: Brazil was starting to look like Argentina, Argentina was looking like Venezuela, and Venezuela was resembling Zimbabwe....
Youth in revolt
This video by the young Guatemalan leader Gloria Álvarez is better than anything I’ve heard from many of our so-called leaders in quite a while. Unlike most, Ms....
Another scandalous non-scandal
The ongoing scandal involving Elías Jaua’s nanny poses a challenge to us bloggers. After so many scandalous non-scandals, is there anything left to say? It turns out there is...
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