Countdown to Newsprint-geddon
As reported in earlier posts, the ongoing newsprint shortage crisis has been deepening in the last few weeks with more newspapers closing shop, and others being forced to...
Politics
Could it be that the murder rate did peak in 2008?
Note: This 2014 article is now outdated. Please read a more current assessment of OVV’s estimates—together with our own, Caracas Chronicles estimate of the violent death rate—here. As Interior...
What does forgiveness feel like?
Venezuelans are angry, and they well should be. Beyond that, though, there is a question that has been lingering in my mind for quite some time – will...
Default, But Not As You Know It
First it was Air Europa. Then Iberia, Lufthansa, Air France, Avianca (Colombia), Tame (Ecuador), Air Canada, Aerolíneas Argentinas, TAP (Portugal), COPA (Panama), American and United. One after the...
Peace sells... but who's buying?
The word “peace” is in the air… more or less. Last weekend, the government did a series of events under the theme “Peace and Life”. It was pretty...
It was the cheapest of times, it was the most expensive of times...
In Time Magazine, Girish Gupta gets a rare chance to expose Distortioland in all its contradictory glory. Venezuela [is] simultaneously one of the most expensive and one of...
Ban the poison
After an eleven-year course on currency exchange controls, it’s time to take our final exam boys and girls. The test has a single question: what have we learnt...
Chavismo's political agency problem
Turn on the TV, and it strikes you in the face – the stratospheric stupidity of the people in charge in Venezuela. Whether it’s Nicolás Maduro talking about...
A Vast Criminal Sub-Culture
Smitten as I am with the economics profession, I do realize it has its limitations. Some topics demand a sociologist’s mindset to really appreciate. I’m thinking Crime. Take...
Will the real Plan de la Patria please stand up?
In the last two years, the document known as Plan de la Patria (Plan for the Fatherland) has become frequently used in Venezuelan politics, even if it’s quite...
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