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...
Life
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...
Malaria's unwelcome comeback
Once, a long time ago, we were pioneers in erradicating malaria, but now the endemic disease is more rooted than ever in Venezuela. Yet even if we have addressed this theme several...
Things you find in your septic tank
Over the years, we’ve been hard on traditional Venezuelan media outlets. Sometimes, we’re really hard on them. So it came as a refreshing surprise to read the latest...
Corrales, on where Venezuela is
A smart take on the current situation by friend of the blog Javier Corrales, courtesy of NTN24, in Spanish. The part that jumped out at me: there were...
Journalism under siege
What’s new with the communicational hegemony these days? Well, a radio station was shut down in Barinas, and a radio show was suspended in Caracas. Journalists are being fired...
Is Populism beatable?
Populism has been the driving force behind both our political landscape and our economic misfortunes. This trait has marked the misguided economic policies of several administrations, with...
Sky-high debt
Oh, Conviasa… Just when you had finally paid the debt with the Italian company that leases you a Boeing 767 for your Madrid and Buenos Aires routes, now...
My epiphany on Sidor
A few years ago I was invited to write the first OpEd piece of my life by the Venezuelan newspaper El Globo. I was in graduate school at the time,...
Paging Miss Marple
A few weeks ago I was researching all the material I could find about Venezuela’s human rights violations, both pre- and post-Chávez. Lo and behold, I came across...
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