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...
Politics
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...
Meeting Chomsky, by @miguelsantos12
(A guest post by economist Miguel Ángel Santos – follow him on Twitter) The first time I heard of Noam Chomsky was in the early nineties. During my...
Graphs galore!
Twitter is just chock-full’a graphs today. Here’s one from Asdrúbal Oliveros on Venezuela’s car production. Vamos sobre ruedas!These two are from my partners-in-crime at ODH. The first is...
Chart of the Day
Crisis? What crisis?
Someone better call Guinness...
…because it looks like we have a new world record for the most State Vice-Ministries. Nicolas Maduro has decided to reform the government in more ways than one....
Crime - and nothing else
Mónica Spear and her husband were not the only ones who died yesterday. There was also Guido Méndez, a university professor, and his mother Glory, both killed inside...
Amalia Sáez's golden parachute
When I did my 8-D post on my hometown of Barquisimeto, I called then Mayor Amalia Sáez “the worst in history”. Now, weeks after she has left office,...
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