Venezuela at the Crossroads, or on the Other Side of the Tracks
Our West-Coast correspondent (yes, we have one!) spends the day at Stanford learning the hows, whys and what’s-nexts of Venezuela's future from a panel of experts.
Our West-Coast correspondent (yes, we have one!) spends the day at Stanford learning the hows, whys and what’s-nexts of Venezuela's future from a panel of experts.
Your briefing for For Tuesday, March 14, 2017, translated by Javier Liendo.
We asked Carlos Hernández to sit and watch Venezuela's all-propaganda-all-the-time flagship state broadcaster for one whole day. He lived to tell the tale. Barely.
Growing up in Táchira, Cúcuta was no mere border town: it was our field of dreams, the one place dad could afford to spoil us. To us, the history of the revolution is the story of our disastrously deteriorating relationship with the town.
Persistent high inflation is a problem every other country in the world has figured out how to solve: that's one key reason why Venezuela stands alone atop Bloomberg's Misery Index.
In Venezuela, the government no longer makes the results of its official household survey public, so independent researchers have started running their own large survey. What they find for 2016 is distressing.
Graduating as a physician in Venezuela means relinquishing all hope of calling the shots over your job, making a decent living, or, in some cases, not breaking the law.
Your briefing for Carnaval Weekend, Feb 25 - 27, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
In Tropico 4, I discovered that life in a ridiculously over the top Eastern European game designer's delirium of a dysfunctional Banana Republic is...pretty much indistinguishable from what goes on outside my window.
Humanitarian agencies are now studying Venezuela's using formal tools designed to quantify hunger crises in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. They find Venezuela's most vulnerable areas are fast approaching a serious humanitarian crisis.
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