Passport gridlock
Looks like what once was a problem solved is coming back with a vengeance: getting or renewing a passport is once more becoming an ordeal for ordinary Venezuelans. Former...
Politics
Sanity 1, Samán 0
Earlier this month, butchers across the land went on strike, fed up with both constant harassment by INDEPABIS and price controls that force them to sell at a loss....
Please be part of my Focus Group
Would anyone mind helping me in this crowdsourced experiment? I recently learned that Capriles has a weekly web show. That’s his only main communicational outlet. His latest episode...
Panfleto Negro at 14
Yup, Venezuela’s own little online corner of the web for overeducated depressives turns 14 today. Whoddathunkit? Many happy returns, Panfleto. If we didn’t have you we’dhave to invent...
Pero Tenemos Patria Chronicles
Famasloop puts the boot right in… (Deliriously NSFW, btw)
Recordando transiciones pasadas
(And now for a change of pace: a guest post by my friend, Barquisimetan historian Froilán Ramos. In Spanish) Los días que vivimos recuerdan los que causaron la...
Pompis Chronicles
Butt implants on the sly from an unlicensed “Doctor” in Catia? Step right this way… “Lo que yo inyecto son biopolímeros, y como ya sabrás, esto es peligroso....
Thinking about deadweight loss
This post from the UC Berkeley Energy Institute got me thinking that we’re not grasping the fullness of Venezuela’s crazy gasoline subsidy. The post is about Indonesia, and...
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