The FT rings the alarm bells
The folks at the FT are worried. Very worried. Two money quotes, given their annoying firewalls: “In a report last week which was otherwise bullish on supplies, analysts...
Politics
Why vote?
We’ve all heard it: we need to go out and vote on December 8th. But why? What difference will it make if your mayor is red or blue?...
8-D Races to Watch: El Hatillo (Updated)
El Hatillo is the smallest municipality in Caracas, and one of the bluest in the country. It’s also the most unusual case of the upcoming election: the MUD...
Teenage Mural Ninja Chávez
Murales Mutantes en Revolución is easily the greates tumblr ever. Huge respect to @reindertot for putting it together. It’s not easy to pick out one or two murals, though for sheer...
Maduro to Guys who Calculate the Inflation Figures: "That's a nice job you got there, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it..."
Is there any other way to read this outburst? “En noviembre, de acuerdo a nuestro seguimiento, la inflación debería ser menos cinco por ciento (-5). ¿Se darán cuenta...
Calvinball, Habilitante Edition
Looks like Maduro just used his Enabling Law powers to retroactively grant himself s’more Enabling Law powers: El texto definitivo de la ley que se aprobó este martes vino con una...
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...
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...
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