What Quico should learn from David Cameron
I’ve been mulling Quico’s unusual screed from the other day, in which he harshly criticized Henrique Capriles and wondered out loud how long he was going to last...
Politics
Steel Crazy After All These Years
This must really be – and I know I seem to write this often, but bear with me – one of the weirdest things I’ve read about Venezuela in...
The phantom bike menace
We’ve been hearing as of late that SICAD dollar auctions were being used as stopgap measures to avoid scarcity for particularly sensitive items. For example, many SICAD dollars are...
Someone to watch over them
Reading this great post by Setty, it strikes me that there is real ingenuity and entrepreneurship in Venezuela. It’s too bad it’s often used for things such as...
E Gibberish Unum
Some days, this self-parody we have masquerading as a government is just too awesome for words…like when its “inspirational revolutionary murals” forget to replace the dummy text before...
Grabación de mi Blogotaller desde Bucaramanga
La primera sesión fue bien divertida. La grabación está aquí.
The government's ombudsman
One of the new state institutions created in the 1999 Constitution was the figure of the People’s Ombudsman, in charge of defending citizens’ rights against the state. Fourteen...
Prannation Redux
So, when the Sabaneta prison “pran” (I never know how to translate that…”prison gang dictator”?) and the Sabaneta prison warden disagree, who gets his way? Care to venture a...
"We're not going to sully ourselves in the cesspool of the government camp" says Capriles as he hands out free goodies to his supporters...
Yesterday’s Capriles event in Rio Chico, narrowcast live on Capriles.tv, has more or less completed the full-body existential funk I’ve been inhabiting recently. Talking to a small audience...
I Got the Eudomar Blues
Last week, when Eudomar Tovar was named Central Bank head, lots was said about the new breed of Merentes-backed “pragmatists” in the nation’s top economic policy-making posts, with Tovar...
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