The Best Reporting I've Seen on Venezuelan Prisons Yet
SBS, an Australian public broadcaster, is a bit of an unknown entity to me. But this report by Giovana Vitola from inside Margarita’s prison is an absolute tour...
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Trip Advisor: Caracas
Sounds like a luvly place for a vacation, huh? The start of the season for two premier teams in this baseball-loving nation was thrown into doubt after thieves...
Reuters on Fire
Two great, eye-opening pieces on Venezuela landed from Reuters yesterday. First, Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea delve into the inscrutable mystery of ¿dónde están los reales del SICAD? The...
A Samán-onic decision
While the government is busy putting pressure on supermarkets and the media to “control” food shortages, what about those organized street vendors who sell scarce in the streets...
The roadmap, part III: Creating an ecosystem for growth
(A series of posts on how Venezuela can begin to grow again. For some background, see here and here) The second regularity the authors find in The Growth...
The smoking squirt gun
This is the video that proves, PROVES the expelled American diplomats are responsible for everything wrong in Venezuela. Words fail me. Extra points for the first reader to...
Five Surprising Facts About the Post-Chavez Era
Some things, we expected: in a dozen interviews in the days after Chávez died, I kept repeating that Maduro wouldn’t have any of the three key assets – money,...
Unwitting victims
Yesterday Nicolás Maduro expelled three diplomats from the US Embassy. This was all a temper tantrum, a diversion based on false accusations as we all know. But you...
The only thing we have to be anxious about is anxiety itself
Does the thought of First Lady Combattant Cilia Flores seeding relatives all through the upper echelons of the Venezuelan state render you anxious? See, that right there is...
#QQSM, or rather, #QQRebuscarse
Quico’s video is downright depressing. Instead, this cool takedown of Venezuela’s version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” by Gabriel Núñez and Elena Sánchez, is comedy gold....
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