8-D Races to Watch: Barinas
Right in the heart of the llanos, there’s Barinas State, native land of the late comandante eterno. Barinas, along with the other heartland states are still Chavismo’s strongest...
Politics
The first casualties of the war on corruption
Yes, there is a war on corruption. Why, just to show it, big fish are falling left and right! Setty has the details.
If it's not on the shelves, it's not in the inflation numbers
Steve Hanke’s recent post arguing Venezuela is already in a hyper-inflationary spiral strikes me as wrong in a strange, evanescent kind of way. Even as Hanke accepts the...
Dear Nicolás
(An open letter to Nicolás Maduro, courtesy of reader and sometime guest blogger Aquiles LaGrave) Dear Nicolás As a college student, I worked as a plumber to help...
8-D Races to Watch: Porlamar (Mariño)
The Santiago Mariño Municipality in Margarita Island is the most populated of Nueva Esparta State. It holds the largest city and economic center of the island, Porlamar. It’s...
Michelle CAP-chelet
(Note: a rare non-Venezuela post on the Chilean election … viewed from a Venezuelan point of view) It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Michelle Bachelet. After...
Localizing the Crazy that Matters
So (in between changing diapers) I’ve been thinking through why Omar’s latest blog post grabbed me so powerfully. (If you haven’t read it yet, go rectify that now...
8-D Races to Watch: Petare, Eastern Caracas (Sucre)
The Sucre Municipality of Miranda State isn’t just one of the five parts which conforms the capital, Caracas, but it has also recently become a major political battleground,...
Things that are silly...
…and yet… Hmmmmm…
I got 99 Problems, but an Habilitante ain't one [UPDATED]
The Habilitante won’t really change anything about anything that the government can and will do. So it's not worth getting our panties in a bunch about.
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