Tick-tock
In recent weeks, I came across Chavismo’s Watches,(Relojes del Chavismo) a blog that showcases the weakness that high-ranking chavistas have for pretty, fancy, expensive watches. I think the blog,...
Politics
Zombieland
According to Nicolás Maduro, an assasination attempt against him has been thwarted. The culprits? Maria Corina Machado, along with a bunch of opposition leaders, as well as the...
Colombia's Shockingly (to a Venezuelan) Mundane Election System
Less than an hour after the closing of the polling stations, we learned that Oscar Ivan Zuluaga –Uribe’s boy- pushed President Santos to a presidential runoff vote, actually...
Bland to the bone
The Carter Center has just published a sprawling, 118-page report on the 2013 Presidential Elections in Venezuela (see PDF here in Spanish). It goes through what happened in that dramatic election...
Polls vs. chavismo vs. guarimbas vs. naysayers
Today, two by-elections were held in the cities of San Cristóbal and San Diego. In both cities, the opposition mayors – elected a few months ago by huge...
Mythbusting the reduction of poverty
When Nicolás Maduro said that he “proposed reaching zero misery levels by the year 2018”, he was sounding magnanimous to the untrained ear, but actually he was just...
Enchufado chronicles
I just got back from a short trip to Maracaibo. One of the many things that struck me (more on that in future posts) is the extent to...
Water water everywhere and not a drop is clean
There are alternatives to oil … There’s electricity in solar and wind, and electric cars. We can begin to do workarounds, albeit not rapidly, but over time we...
Adjustment or collapse? The case for collapse
As the debate about whether Venezuela is facing macroeconomic adjustment or macroeconomic collapse rages on, some traders* at giant Japanese investment bank Nomura make the case for collapse about as succinctly as is...
Postcards from El Rodeo III
A few days ago 18-year-old Clider Martínez was taken in by the National Guard while protesting in Los Palos Grandes. After being processed he was sent to...
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