Diosdado's spring/summer 2013 collection
Ahhh…the lazy days of Venezuelan summer. Perfect for strolling through streets perfumed of sun-ripened mangoes, whistling to the Efe ice cream song on balmy Friday afternoons…and, if you’re Diosdado...
Politics
The Dirtiest Lie
Three months ahead of his death, Fidel Castro knew Hugo Chávez was a terminal case. He told Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa as much. It beggars belief that this fact...
What hath red culture wrought?
This article from the cultural magazine Arcadia gives us a glimpse of how the arts in Venezuela have been transformed in the times of the comandante eterno. For one...
Apocalyptic South American fuck-up nudges up fund manager's alpha
This Bloomberg lede tiptoes right up to the point of self-parody. (The article itself is good, though – sorry, don’t have a link to the whole thing…) July...
Some final thoughts on Capriles in Chile
As some of you know, Henrique Capriles was in Chile last week as part of a tour that took him to Peru. (My take in Prodavinci here, and...
Oh Mark, never change...
Only Mark Weisbrot could look at this chart… …and conclude “already inflation has started to fall from its peak of 6% monthly.” Worse than the headline, though, is the...
Double standard
Days after the April 14th election, this video of Housing Minister Ricardo Molina threating to fire any employee who dares to “speak ill of the Revolution” or is...
You don't know Father Vidal
Last month, a Maracaibo priest named Vidal Atencio put Chávez on the altar…literally. Alongside the image of the comandante eterno he had pictures of the Libertador and Zulia State Governor...
A modest proposal
On the occasion of the birth of his royal babydom, I’d like to make a modest proposal for the betterment of Venezuelans’ relationship with power: let us commit...
You don't have to be on LSD to come up with an auction mechanism like SICAD...but it helps
So the first analysis is in on the operation of the new alternative-to-CADIVI dollar “auction“ system. (And yes, I had to put the scare-quotes in bold type because the...
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