Cadena-o-meter
In the last 15 years, the cadena nacional has become part of the daily programming in free-to-air radio and television. This year more so, what with the situation...
Life
Maracaibo chronicles
An excellent story on smuggling in Zulia state, by Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev and Andrew Willis, on Venezuela’s unlikely and unsustainable path to becoming … a rice exporter! The...
Crime - and nothing else
Mónica Spear and her husband were not the only ones who died yesterday. There was also Guido Méndez, a university professor, and his mother Glory, both killed inside...
Spear to the heart
As the father of a five-year old girl, it’s impossible for me not to be deeply shaken by the horrible fate of former Miss Venezuela Mónica Spear and...
A heartfelt rant, from @angelalayon
We economists are not having an easy time as of late. Venezuela’s economic absurdities have recently been compounded by the realization that, yes, Venezuela’s Central Bank is now...
Killing them loudly
As the year comes to a close, it’s time for countries to take stock of official and not-so-official numbers. One figure that has raised a lot of eyebrows...
The FT rings the alarm bells
The folks at the FT are worried. Very worried. Two money quotes, given their annoying firewalls: “In a report last week which was otherwise bullish on supplies, analysts...
Fired for putting public Central Bank data on the front page of a business newspaper
The crony takeover of Cadena Capriles claims its first big scalp. Omar Lugo has just been fired from his job as Editor of El Mundo Economía y Negocios...
A lovely end to a very sad day
As my brave friend Enzo would say: happiness … is a choice.
Economic cyberwar, cont.
CONATEL is continuing its Internet offensive against the “parallel dollar”, with the shutdown of more than 100 sites related to the black market. But looks like they decided to...
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