The Trouble with ALBA
Quico says: Turns out it’s not only Venezuelans who are finding out that taking Hugo Chávez’s promises at face value can be a problematic strategy going forward… Venezuela’s...
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Piñata! Piñata!
Bloomberg says: Venezuela plans to sell $3 billion of dollar-denominated bonds to local investors, the latest move in a push to shore up the currency in the black...
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Everything I know about Chavista geostrategic thinking I learned from a fat gringo neo-con
Quico says: If you’re looking for some mind-broadening reading this weekend, I heartily recommend this New Republic piece by Iraq War-monger extraordinaire Robert Kagan. It’s about the rising...
Red goes the neighborhood
Katy says: Victor Vargas, remember him? BOD President, father-in-law to royalty, polo-playing socialist, poster boy for the Revolution of the Rich and the Well-connected? Well, turns out Mr....
Expropriation by any other name...
Quico says: People tend to think of nationalization as a black-and-white thing: either you’re in the private sector or you’re in the public sector. But I think it’s...
Six degrees of Hugo Chávez
Katy says: How many people separate Barack Obama from Hugo Chávez? Yesterday’s debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton gives us the answer: two! Barack Obama … sat on...
Everybody Already Knows Everything About the Anderson Case
Quico thinks: Oh, man, I should write something about the Anderson case. It’s getting really, really over the top, this one. I mean, sure, I know, everything else...
Confessions of a dangerous mind
Katy says: “Por allí se nos fueron miles de millones de dólares el año pasado (en compras de Internet), he ordenado ajustar al vicepresidente y que más nunca...
Newsweek's Credibility Tanks
Quico says: With sources like these, can you believe a word Newsweek says?
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