Stagflation's just another word for Catch-22
Quico says: One vital question that’s getting virtually no attention is what the correct policy response would be to the economic crisis likely to hit Venezuela later this...
Life
PDVSA Maula
Quico says: This Dow Jones wire story, by-lined Raúl Gallegos, makes for compelling reading. The entire thing is really quite stunning, but if I had to pick just...
Anything is possible in a country...
…where even the bagres are climbers.
Huffo-ing and puffing
Quico says: The Parable of the Leaves is up on Huffo. Take a minute to write a comment over there, would you?
EIA Settles the Matter
Quico says: The US Department of Energy’s well regarded Energy Information Administration has just put out its latest Country Analysis Brief on Venezuela. After acknowledging methodological and opacity...
Two nuggets of truth from my inbox
Juan Cristobal says: – Excerpts from some email conversations I had yesterday. ————— From: Juan CristobalTo: My friend Roger, [email protected]: What have you heard? Dude,Tell me about the...
The elevator speech
Juan Cristobal says: Imagine you’re working to get someone elected and you run into an undecided voter in an elevator. You have thirty seconds to convince this voter...
Reading the Referendum Tea Leaves
Quico says: I haven’t been writing much about the upcoming referendum on abolishing term limits, for a couple of reasons. The whole thing’s been rushed through so fast...
The Parable of the Leaves
[coming soon on Huffo…] Quico says: Talk about Venezuela these days and people assume the argument splits neatly between two camps: nutty Pat Robertson-style Chavez-hating right-wingers who couldn’t...
51 years on from that one, fleeting, dizzying flash of no-bullshit national unity
Quico says: If I told you that, in the wake of a sham referendum aimed at keeping the president in power forever, Venezuelans of all kinds – left...
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