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...
Politics
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.
Breaking down Maduro-nomics
Maduro. Sunday night: “I have decided, once the Enabling Law is approved, to set percentage limits on earnings in every sector of the economy” Really Nicolás? Every sector?...
8-D Races to Watch: Barquisimeto (Iribarren)
Just like I did last year with governors, I’ll take a look to some of the big mayoral races in the weeks prior to the December 8th municipal...
Looking for wind power? Not in this wind farm
This picture recently posted online by Bloomberg’s correspondent in Venezuela Anatoly Kurmanaev is from the La Guajira wind farm in Northwest Venezuela (built as a joint venture with...
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