#17M: Altamira in Olive Green
I wake up to the soothing sounds of a chopper; like a giant mosquito that you just can’t swat. Check my phone: Monday, 6:45 am. Insane tweets from...
Politics
The Arepa Wars
Let’s get one thing straight: the Arepa is on the front line of the Economic War. On one side we have the fascists: Polar Corp in allegiance with...
The roadmap, part IV: saving our way to prosperity
(This is the fourth part in a series of essays exploring the common policy choices made by high-growth countries, and what Venezuela needs to do to implement them....
The Chávez Legacy, Pulverized in 13 Simple Charts
On the brand new FiveThirtyEight.com, Friend of the Blog Dorothy Kronick does the kind of demolition job on Bolivarian Socialism’s record usually associated with a wrecking crew. Eye-opening stuff,...
Venezuela's perilous path to dialogue
When The Daily Beast asked me for another post, I decided to touch upon why it is so hard for Venezuelans from different sides of the aisle to...
One Bottle, Then This: My Afternoon at UCV
A reader who prefers not to be named sends in this first-hand account of yesterday’s march-and-melée at the UCV Campus. It began with the usual confusion about the...
Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
Tal Cual goes to court... again
Missing from the news cycle last week was the decision of a Caracas lower court deciding to hear a lawsuit brought by National Assembly Chairman Diosdado Cabello against the...
CAP's prophecy
Carlos Andrés Pérez was always a controversial figure, hated by some, deemed great by others. Whatever your views regarding this “Gocho”, his two terms as president paint an...
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