Getting our priorities straight
If you’re Venezuelan (and live here), a good night’s sleep is a rare occurrence. The other night, because I had just read Ewald Scharfenberg’s piece on how much the...
Politics
What if it's Diosdado who's vetoing devaluation?
2014 will be remembered as the Year of the Shortage. In Venezuela these days you need a prescription to buy acetominophen, a birth certificate to buy diapers, and...
Name MedioMalo Finance Minister!
For Throwback Thursday, we present MedioMalo, the 2008-era ViVe opposition hate figure who turns out to be far and away Venezuela’s most far-sighted economic forecaster.
Enabled to Destroy [UPDATED]
Twenty Four hours before the Enabling Act expired Nicolas Maduro signed 28 new laws to “diversify and secure the economic growth of 2015.” Let us rewind to one year ago, when...
Leopoldo, one of FP's "upenders" of 2014
Leopoldo Lopez, jailed by chavismo for helping light the spark that led to the street protests that erupted nationwide in February, was highlighted by Foreign Policy magazine as one...
Divide and conquer
(This is a guest post by longtime reader Sasha Ojeda Mendoza, a Dutch-Venezuelan political scientist and blogger based in Amsterdam. Take it away, Sasha.) Entrenched politics and how...
Looking under El Sistema's hood
I apologize for not posting about this sooner. Nonetheless, make sure you read The Guardian’s scorching takedown of El Sistema. British academic and musician Geoffrey Baker did what...
Still Two Sets To Go, Quico
(This is a guest post by a long time reader, MacPapas Medianas, who is writing from the second floor of what was once the highest grossing McDonalds in...
Moneyball update: PSUV says no to "beisbol" loan
Notitarde’s Janet Yucra is reporting that the PSUV has pulled the plug on the proposed loan for the Venezuelan Profesional Baseball League (LVBP), which I wrote about this week...
1-800-SNITCH
We dangle the word “Facho” (slang for fascist) quite easily. It’s a quick way to refer to certain individuals in the government who act as – how to put it nicely? – psychotic...
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