It's a new world
We knew this day was coming. Now, it’s here. The IMF has confirmed that China is now the world’s largest economy, as measured in terms of GDP (using...
Politics
Las Matemáticas No Fallan
The sad part is that we’ll never really know what happened during the tense, eight-hour stand-off between the Investigative police and downtown “colectivos” today. We know five people, including...
Truth another casualty of the Serra murders
We haven’t posted much about the Serra murders. At this point, with half-truths flying back and forth (mostly forth, i.e., from a single side of the aisle) nobody...
Accountability, pero al revés
The Venezuelan government insists on transparency in the use of scarce foreign currency…by private firms. Yesterday, the foreign exchange control administrative agency, Cencoex (which is why they’re calling CADIVI these...
Ad Wars: A video for the Constitutional Assembly
What does the peanut gallery think? Put aside your feelings about a Constitutional Assembly, and admit … that’s one rockin’ video.
This is our "winter of discontent"
Back in 1978, Great Britain went through a horrendous period. Public employees went on strike, and public services were severely disrupted. The period, known as “the winter of discontent,”...
Hotspots: Sucre's innovative way of fighting crime
Before the economic storm severely hit Venezuelans wallets, crime was people’s biggest national concern, topping scarcity, inequality, inflation or anything. In spite of being bumped, it is still is a...
Venezuela not so Chévere
On September 22nd we came across this Tweet: It reads, more or less, “8.92 million tourists confirm that #Venezuela is the most #Chévere [cool] destination”. This tweet seemed...
Everyone's a general
I´m under the weather this week, so I’ll stick to re-posting interesting things that reach my Inbox. Today, Bloomberg has a story on how the military find all sorts of...
P-R-evolutionary diplomacy
So, Nicolas Maduro was in New York City last week and apparently things didn’t go so well for him. But the government (through the Information Ministry) believes otherwise and,...
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