How do you eat a barrel of oil?
I ask ’cause if the dire predictions come true, that’s what we’re gonna have to do. In the Transitions blog, I wonder if we’re on the road to...
Life
The victim of my rant of the day: the Associated Press
Clever use of puns aside (“Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls,” chuckle chuckle), I have a small beef to raise about this...
The PSUV outsources to China
The recently named Vice-President of China Li Yuanchao visited Venezuela and met with Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Palace to sign a new batch of deals between both governments....
Gas prices and car ownership
An interesting post about Venezuelan gasoline consumption from UC Berkeley Professor of Economics Lucas Davis. He says that Venezuelans don’t own more cars per capita than comparable countries...
Luisa Estela is down, but not out
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) selects its leadership at the beginning of the judicial year, every January. This time, it took them until May to finally reach a...
More goons, please
Violence in Caracas reached new highs in April, and the numbers so far from May aren’t much better. Given this scenario, Nicolás Maduro announced this week that the...
Food sovereignty: Still a mere formality
The government has raised the official subsidy paid to domestic rice producers – from 2,50 Bolivars per Kilo to 3,60 Bs. In spite of this, our producers shouldn’t feel...
The mustache chronicles
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez: Nicolás Maduro is many things to many people: a tyrant, a hero, a president, a fake president, an awkward public speaker, and...
Communicational hegemony vs. copyright
Because using music of a videogame as the soundtrack for a cadena nacional wasn’t enough, State TV channel VTV decided to use “Detalles”, one of the greatest hits...
Things I learned watching last night's cadena (UPDATED)
Last night’s cadena nacional presenting the regime’s “evidence” that the opposition is to blame for getting their faces kicked in at the National Assembly is the stuff of legend. Here’s...
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