Reductio ad sundecopium
Usually, when economists make the case for the futility of price controls, they’ll stress the impossible information problem involved. If it was just a matter of regulating 5...
Politics
In the Face of Hatred
Following Tuesday’s National Assembly plenary session, I keep hearing people say that focusing on the homophobic statements made by chavista parliamentarians does a disservice to the public debate,...
What will the new Culture Law bring?
During yesterday’s infamous session at the National Assembly, Chavismo also approved the highly controversial Organic Culture Law. Rojo rojito culture has already done serious damage over the years,...
A day of extraordinary degradation at the National Assembly
Diosdado Cabello’s National Assembly seems determined to keep plumbing new depths. Yesterday’s session, culminating in this extraordinary homophobic tirade against Henrique Capriles’s chief of staff at the Miranda...
Cue the Imperial March
We’ve provided a soundtrack to accompany your reading of this post: Supreme Evil Overlord President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello giddily announced on Twitter yesterday that...
The Antidote to Collective Amnesia
Wow! I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this site before. The concept behind SoloPromesas.com is disarmingly simple: the site aggregates promises made publicly by various office-holders in Venezuela...
Meet your friendly neighborhood "colectivo"
Last week, 97 irregular armed groups in Caracas (known as colectivos – roughly, left-wing paramilitaries) announced they would surrender their weapons in order to join the government-sponsored Movement for...
Sometimes lightning is just lightning
It’s probably wisest to resist drawing any wider inferences from the refinery fire in Puerto La Cruz yesterday. Silly though it sounds, it really is true that sometimes...
A sense of scale
Here’s The Economist’s recent article on corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela, in graphical form…
Municipal Elections: The Gift that Keeps on Giving [UPDATED]
So there’s a strong rumor circulating that tomorrow will be the grand day in which super lame (duck) Mayor of Chacao Emilio Graterón announces his candidacy for reelection...
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