Summa Cum Fraude
Your daily briefing for Friday, May 27, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Friday, May 27, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Once a week, we cut through the news noise to bring you a report that's puro lomito: not the news, but what the news means for Venezuela's political crisis.
Even Pablo Iglesias, whose political party, Podemos, appears to have risen out of irrelevance on the back of chavista payments, is backing away from Maduro. That tells you something, doesn't it?
The chickens are coming home to roost for chavismo's international supporters. A brutal take-down in The Guardian ensures reputational costs are duly paid.
The final entry on our Caracas Chronicles Book Club selection: “The Oil Curse,” by Michael Ross.
For people who suffered discrimination after signing for Chávez's recall in 2004, signing again is a fraught act. So are they holding back? Not necessarily.
Venezuela's cutting imports and spending, and raising taxes, all the pain from a regular IMF program... Without the gain of an IMF loan.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, May 18th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
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