Así, así, así es que se gobierna...
Quico says: So you want to know how a minimally responsible petrostate elite might manage the oil industry’s boom-and-bust cycle? Go ask the Norwegians. Facing a worldwide slump...
Life
Government eats itself
Juan Cristobal says: – The Chávez administration has been gobbling up everything in sight at such a pace, it’s actually nationalizing itself now! The Banco Industrial de Venezuela...
Periodization
Quico says: My guess now is that when the historians of the future come to periodize the Chávez era, they’ll settle on something like: December 1998 – November...
Comments worth reading
Quico says: One of the great joys of blogging is when a post sets off a really good debate. The comments thread following my previous post was one...
The Barrage
There are missiles coming from every direction. In just a few weeks, it was the comisarios, the ports and airports, Rosales, Ledezma, the Miranda clinics, the oil service...
Denying Plausible Deniability
Quico says: What I find most significant about Chavez’s announcement that he has decided to shut down Globovision is, precisely, that he announced it. Think about it: if...
Apocalypse Now
Quico says: Gah! I really don’t have time to blog about it properly right now. But Chavez’s move to seize the oil sector’s private contractors is a catastrophe...
Les Misérables
Juan Cristobal says: – This from the Annals of Dadaist Dictatorship Chronicles: Two bakers in the city of Guanare, in central Venezuela, were arraigned today. Their crime? Selling...
The fictional 2.15
Juan Cristobal says: – The government likes to boast about how it has kept the exchange rate fixed at Bs.F. 2.15 for a number of years. They make...
Apologies
Quico says: I really should apologize for the light posting recently. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been in the middle of a hideously complicated international move, not...
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