When back-assward bolivarian policy making decimates the Venezuelan rice sector, guess who picks up the slack? The WSJ looks for the cheese on the “Food Sovereignty” tostada. There’s...
An excellent article from El Nacional on the high cost of building power plants in Venezuela. Because the government has basically sworn off procurement auctions, and instead resorts...
Nicolas Maduro’s pretext to seek Enabling Powers is his plan to declare a state of national emergency to engage his “war on corruption”. But public opinion is not...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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