BoP Crisis ain't just a river in Egypt
There’s an awful lot to digest in FRod’s latest research note on Venezuela’s national accounts for Bank of America, enough to keep me going for more than a...
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GosPlan in the Tropics
If memory serves, I first told @Econ_Vzla he should start a blog around 2005. Guy’s eight years late, but I’m so glad he finally listened. Durante los años de...
Maduro Brings to Appliances all the Dynamism of the Apartment Rental Market
It’s been a shocking day: the image of people calmly lining up to buy forcibly discounted appliances was a lot to take on. The scene was repeated again...
#9N Commeth
Tomorrow, Venezuela will see something it’s never quite seen before: a proper peer-to-peer, no-visible-head, Istambul/Sao Paulo style 2.0 street protest. It’s hard to know just how successful the...
The Communicational Hegemony Cookbook
Step 1. Invite journalists to your military base to cover your revolutionary leg-of-pork giveaway. Step 2. Let your giveaway turn into a complete fiasco, with skirmishes breaking out...
Buh bye Eudomar...we hardly knew ya... RE-UPDATED
RE-UPDATE: Gah! I had this one horribly wrong. Eudomar stays on as head of BCV even as he concurrently becomes Venezuela’s IMF governor.
Bajadita Chronicles
Tell us more about how Venezuela can’t possibly face an economic apocalypse, Mark… BTW, fun isn’t it how inflation numbers have to be leaked by BCV flunkies these...
Sounds Like They've Thought This One Through
Now Nicolás Maduro wants to spread anti-aircraft guns through the hillside slums around Caracas. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Plastic Imitating Plastic
For readers more accustomed to sipping gingerly from the champagne flute of misogyny in First World public spheres, there’s something jarring about having to chug from the fire-hydrant...
Eschernomics
Expressing frustration at recent policy failures, President Maduro announced today a new initiative to regulate the process of water current formation, as part of a drive to finally...
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