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Hugo Chávez likes to boast that he is some sort of innovator when it comes to social policies and that the opposition has no answers. Never mind that...
Hugo Chávez likes to boast that he is some sort of innovator when it comes to social policies and that the opposition has no answers. Never mind that...
New Year’s Resolutions are famously made to be broken. Mine, ‘mafraid, will be no exception: I’m resolving to stop writing about Entirely Predictable, By-Now Routine Abuses of the Venezuelan...
Poverty falling, and fast. A stable, growing economy, resilient to external shocks. Low, steady inflation. Inequality falling, and fast. An appreciating currency. Improving educational standards. Successive leftwing governments increasingly...
(A gift under the tree for our readers: this is an exclusive guest post by Alejandro Tarre, a talented, Caracas-based writer and blogger. Do check out his blog,...
Looking through the Wikileaks cables, it strikes me that there is one unambiguously good thing the U.S. is doing in Venezuela: helping Cuban health professionals escape from the...
If people really understood how vanishingly, impossibly small their chances of winning the lottery are, nobody would play. But they do: year after year, decade after decade, generation...
Great fun from the Wikileaks docu-dump: ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: A plain-spoken nuclear physicist told Econoff [the U.S. consulate's Economics Office] that those spreading rumors that Venezuela is helping...
The Wikileaks U.S. Diplomatic Cable data-dump – or rather, the first few shards of it, which is all we’ve seen so far – is a subject of deep...
It’s easy to forget – and weird to think about – but there was a time when the foreign-backed fascists really did try to murder a massively popular,...
Just a quick shout-out to two books from long-time readers of this blog. Vicente Ulive-Schnell is the author of “Yo maté a Simón Bolívar.” I haven’t read it, but...
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