Sanctions are go!
One day after the historic reboot of U.S.-Cuba relations, Barack Obama has signed into law what will officially be known as the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act...
Politics
Trolling the Kremlinologists?
On any normal day, Diosdado Cabello penning a lie-filled Op-Ed for The New York Times about Venezuela’s human rights record would have been the big story. But today was...
The Intelligence Blunder of the Decade
Cuba and the U.S. spent a year and a half secretly negotiating the normalization in their diplomatic relations through a Canadian back-channel. A year. And a half. Still,...
If you think President Maduro just quit his job, raise your hand
Nah, he hasn’t. I’m still troubled, however, by the indifference with what just happened. A brief recap: On Monday, President Nicolás Maduro held a rally against the Empire of...
Hausmann Presidente
A translation of a delicious put-down of our cerebrally-limited President, courtesy of Harvard Prof. Ricardo Hausmann: After a trip to Albania, South Africa, India, and Kazakhstan, where I have...
Another year, another attempt at police reform
Is violence still rampant in the country? Yes. Is homicide such a problem that it must be considered as an epidemic? Absolutely. So, what’s the central government doing about...
The Precise Instant Everything Went to Hell
It’s a luxury, really: not that many countries are able to pinpoint the exact moment when the wheels came off their economic institutions and macro-chaos became inevitable. We can....
The "pet cock" gave them away
Five weeks ago, our pal Setty published a terrific article for the Columbia Journalism Review on scams and the media. Using Arevenca, the scam Venezuelan company whose president, Francisco Javier González, has...
Bye-bye Landrieu
Perhaps you remember U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana? You know, the one who blocked the bill to impose sanctions to certain members of the Venezuelan government because...
Venezuela isn't Germany in 1938, it's Germany in 1921
On September 1st this year, Bs.87 would buy you $1 in Cúcuta. Today, those same 87 bolos will buy you 50 cents. That’s a 100% rise in the...
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