Cesppa, Cesna: Both are the same, yet different...
How’s this for an Orwelian agency title? The Strategic Center for the Security and Protection of the Fatherland (CESPPA) , tha thas been just set up by decree...
Politics
The Habilit-ation condemnation overreaction
Nicolás Maduro went to the National Assembly to ask for special powers, i.e., the ability to rule by decree. He doesn’t yet have the votes, but it sounds...
The worse it gets, the better
Writing around the time of the Russian hyperinflation (1919), Lenin had this to say… Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This...
A hat tip and an ear-tug
We already had a King of Re-Bar, and now we have an Aluminium Tsar. It’s great to see the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad’s Joseph Poliszuk really digging into the affairs of...
Adventures in birtherism
The Venezuelan birther movement started out on the fringes of political discussion. It was a subject few people dared to touch, and when they did, it was a...
Quién dijo que aquí no se hace periodismo de investigación?
What’s that you say? You wanna mug Mr. Alcasa? ‘mafraid you’ll have to get in line behind Mr. Glencore here. Take it away, Clavel Rangel, Katherine Pennacchio, Marianela Balbi and...
Giving people free money can be expensive!
Reading Quico’s arbitrage how-to-manual, the casual reader could be forgiven for thinking that these are the exceptions in Venezuela. It’s not like that. The revolution is all about...
Things that you cannot make up, part 17,286
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Our Real Comparative Advantage is in Arbitrage
Now that the government has ever-so-sovereignly declared that Bs.31,200 is the sovereign price of a ton of aluminum in the domestic market, why not try this fun experiment at home?...
Guayana, meet the Hegemony
All kinds of very strange stories have been circulating about the situation in the SOE-Hearland of Ciudad Guayana, where a SIDOR strike that’s about to enter its third...
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