If you outlaw trade, only outlaws will trade
Without realizing it, what Chávez is doing is tacking a risk premium onto the price of basic staples. Just as cocaine is relatively expensive because selling it can land...
Life
5.2%
5.2% inflation in a single month, and the exchange rate in the black market is Bs.F. 8 to the dollar. That’s chavenomics for you. Happy weekend everyone!
Cry-me-a-river Chronicles
The money quote: Sunk in his personal mourning, a comrade meditated: "we approved everything and were always obedient to what Miraflores wanted. This happens to us because we...
In praise of Adriana Núñez
I had resisted commenting on Hugo Chávez’s tirade against Televen journalist Adriana Núñez last Sunday. The whole thing seems like out of a madhouse: a journalist asks a...
Changes in the neighborhood
Also, Bonaire changes status and becomes something akin to an overseas municipality of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Antilles is no longer.
The problem with youth
Is this a good thing? Chavistas seem to think so. I think not. Where chavismo sees youth and fresh faces, I see inexperienced, untested candidates that will not...
Living with your parents...forever...
The reason is in the numbers. Venezuela’s population grows by 450,000 people each and every year, and the country faces a massive challenge housing them all. Figure you...
Eight is our lucky number
How lucky. /
The The candidates so far - what do you know about them?
Tal Cual publishes another list of candidates, with a breakdown of where the districts are located. As opposed to Panorama, this one includes some of the opposition’s "list"...
Panorama of the candidates (Updated)
Panorama, my hometown newspaper, usually isn’t worth the paper it’s written on – particularly so today, when they have yet to issue a correction for mistakenly claiming Yon...
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