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?
Politics
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...
A new kind of draft
Recluta… there’s a word that brings memories. (In most, if not all cases, not happy ones). For a country that’s gone over 150 years without a proper shootin’...
Considerando
Presidential Decree No. 541, published in yesterday’s Official Gazette, is one for the ages. It contains not one, not two, not three, but nine (9!) poorly written, exceedingly...
An argument full of holes
Re. the opposition’s strategy to get out the vote, Quico said: “The reason people were able to vote with cédulas chimbas, or to do coercive votos asistidos, is...
The Energy Relationship Nobody Talks About
Did you know that last year Venezuela shipped more oil to India than to China? I sure didn’t! And did you know if Venezuela sold the oil it...
Fix your collar, @hcapriles
There’s a lot to like in this expertly-made video. The message has been trimmed of all its fat. It gets to the point quickly, concretely. Capriles makes a...
Watch and Learn, Muhammad Yunus
This is how we do Microcredit, Barlovento style… El viceministro de Política Interior, José Vicente Rangel Ávalos, anunció el 7 de septiembre esa instalación y dijo que tres...
Must Read
Is it just me, or are Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s columns in El Nacional quickly establishing themselves as the most lucid take on the through-the-looking-glass world of post-chavismo? Personally,...
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