The Week in Bullets
(Written in conjunction with Juan C.) Outbreak You know those silly Hollywood movies about a mysterious illness breaking out in a small-knit community, the massive quarantines, the government’s attempts...
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Venezuela's ongoing collapse
Venezuela is mired in a deep crisis, but you already know that. Each new day brings with it another batch of bad economic news. When it isn’t high inflation that...
Torre de David Avant la Lettre
A visionary Caracas urban development abandoned amid political turmoil, squatted on, turned into an epicenter of urban legends and violence…El Helicoide was Torre de David before there was...
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Wanna know what’s going on in Venezuela? You won’t have it easy. State media newscasts are just propaganda. Private ones kinda report the news, but focus more on...
Fighting the war on fiction
The shakeup that wasn’t and its future consequences has been the main story in the last few days, but right underneath the radar was the latest development in...
Spinning the revolution
I had to do a double-take upon learning that PDVSA had hired Bell Pottinger, the PR firm run by Margaret Thatcher’s former communications director to “clean its image.” Of course, no...
Dude, Your Strategic Fund Has Less than a Week's Worth of Imports In It
For years – literally years – we’ve been wondering exactly how much money the Venezuelan government had squirrelled away in its “parafiscal funds”: Fonden- and Fondo Chino-style unaudited,...
My kingdom for a passport
“You have to wait,” said the lady at the Embassy. “But I have been waiting, it’s been almost a month and my daughter’s passport expires in just a few...
A tough sell
Recent polls have been conveying an alarming reality: 10% of Venezuelans are looking into emigrating. These same polls showed that in 2002 and 2004 only 4% harbored these ideas. I don’t want to...
The exile of the Infanta
I could begin this post by saying how insulting the appointment of María Gabriela Chávez as the Alternate Ambassador to the U.N is. I could say this is a slap in the...
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