"It's way too dangerous here, I'm going back to Gaza..."
The AP has a great report by Hannah Dreier (in Spanish here) on Palestinian medical students who get to Caracas, scope the place out, and make a b-line for...
Politics
El discurso que ha debido dar Capriles
After my harsh critique of Capriles’s economic policy speech yesterday, plenty of you wanted me to put up or shut up: if not that, what? In that spirit,...
Santa Bárbara
It’s 6:30 PM, and it’s already pitch dark in Maracaibo, courtesy of Hugo Chávez’s tantrum that led to a change in the time zone a few years back. I’m having...
Worse than Wrong: Meaningless
Capping off a horrifically depressing news day, Henrique Capriles gave a “major speech” on economic policy today that barely merited the name. Capriles portrayed himself as presenting a short-term...
Maria Corina Machado barred by the Comptroller-General's office
Maria Corina Machado received today this paper from the Comptroller-General’s office, informing her that she’s declared ineligible to hold any public post for the next twelve months, therefore...
¡Sal de Ese Cuerpo, Pablo Medina!
Some very strange things are happening to Venezuelan political discourse. These days, our radical right-wingers sound more or less exactly like…Pablo Medina! Check out Freddy Guevara’s line on...
The thing about having a really crazy economic policy framework
Economists love to go on and on about “relative price distortions” – one of those inexplicable pieces of jargon that normal people just can’t make sense of. In...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Upon my arrival in Caracas, I expected to hear lots of stories about Leopoldo, or about scarcity, or about the lack of freedom in the press. Instead, the...
Six Hundred Something
Not like we’ll be posting the price of the black market Dollar every time it spikes, but just one week ago it hit the 500 mark. DolarToday’s closing rate for...
Maduro's Esequibo Speech: One huge mess (Updated)
After three postponements, Nicolas Maduro finally went to the National Assembly Monday night to deliver his long-awaited “Esequibo speech”. How was it? It was a three hour-long, rambling,...
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