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...
Life
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...
Nothing to do
1.8 million young people have nothing to do. I read that in an op-ed by Julio Borges, and it sparks my curiosity. It comes from a survey carried out by...
Tyzsgasm
OMG OMG OMG look what’s in Alberto Barrera Tyzska’s column this week. Yo a veces quisiera ser Anabella Abadí. Esta semana, por ejemplo. Hubiera sido ideal ser como...
Disarmament and Its Discontents
Take a look to this report from Brazil’s newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo: “The family nanny for Elías Jaua (currently the Venezuelan Communes Minister) was detained in the early...
Boa sorte, Brasil
We’ve been tempted to write about the rocky Presidential election in Brazil, but have held back due to how volatile it has been. One day a candidate dies in a...
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