Gas prices and car ownership
An interesting post about Venezuelan gasoline consumption from UC Berkeley Professor of Economics Lucas Davis. He says that Venezuelans don’t own more cars per capita than comparable countries...
Politics
Lorenzo Mendoza, prophet of privatization
Lorenzo Mendoza, CEO of Venezuela’s largest private company (Polar), gave a searing press conference yesterday. In it, Mendoza thoroughly debunked the myth that people can’t find corn flour...
Luisa Estela is down, but not out
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) selects its leadership at the beginning of the judicial year, every January. This time, it took them until May to finally reach a...
Six years on, they still don't get it.
I first ran the post below all the way back in 2007. It’s both shocking and totally unsurprising that six years on, they still don’t get it. Six...
Exactly how violated is the 1999 constitution?
The thoroughgoing collapse of law-based government in Venezuela has been a constant theme in this blog since 2002. But this week, in a time-wasting exercise of epic proportions,...
More goons, please
Violence in Caracas reached new highs in April, and the numbers so far from May aren’t much better. Given this scenario, Nicolás Maduro announced this week that the...
And then chavismo collapsed into a scary collective insanity
Man, they don’t make ’em like Alma Guillermoprieto anymore… While his political base crumbles, Maduro inaugurates theaters, attends circus performances, wears olive-green military-style shirts with ever-broader epaulets even...
Chávez or bust
A reporter from El Nacional newspaper took a picture of this bust of the late comandante supremo outside of a shopping mall of the Military Social Prevision Institute...
Food sovereignty: Still a mere formality
The government has raised the official subsidy paid to domestic rice producers – from 2,50 Bolivars per Kilo to 3,60 Bs. In spite of this, our producers shouldn’t feel...
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