Robert Serra's safe was hidden behind a portrait of Chávez
How perfect a detail is that? Sandra Guerrero has lots more where that came from over in El Nacional – all of it, I’m afraid, anonymously sourced. Serra, it now appears,...
Politics
Of Default and "Default"
Consider “default”. It’s a tricky one: both an ordinary English word and a term of art with a specific, legal definition in the field of finance. There’s a reason why this ordinary word is...
Almost one
On the heels of Nicolás Maduro’s absurd attacks on Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Ángel Santos, today we hear from Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff on the issue...
Ant-colored Polling
The September IVAD poll is on a level of awful that must be making the government think twice now. Consider: 70% of respondents have little or no confidence...
A cartoonish affair
The aftermath of the murders of PSUV MP Roberto Serra and his assistant María Herrera last week, along with the discussion on who was behind them and why, has grabbed the...
Self-censorship is the norm
As Quico wrote, many Venezuelans won’t be aware of yesterday’s stand-off between the authorities and members of a pro-government colectivo unless they saw the events unfold online in...
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...
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...
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