Newsprint-geddon is alive and kicking (Updated)
Valencia’s newspaper El Carabobeño could be the newest victim of what I call as”Newsprint-geddon”, the ongoing (and quite deliberate) shortage of newsprint for publishing. The paper informed their...
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#TropaTelesur under siege
Imagine what would happen to your business if you discriminated among your employees based on nationality alone, and they knew about it. What would your workers do if they found out...
Special powers are not that special
Maduro received the power today to rule by decree. It is the second time he has had these. Hugo Chávez had a ton of these during his tenure. You know...
Plug of the week: Diplomado en Periodismo para la Fuente Económica
(Sorry, this one is in Spanish) Junto con la inseguridad, la economía pasó a ser la principal preocupación de los venezolanos, llevándolos a querer estar cada vez más...
Oil and bullets
Two interesting stories, from the indispensable foreign press. First, Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev explores the lack of progress in reining in guns and munition, and how it shows the...
The U.S. Military's Real Worry about Venezuela: That We'll Stop Giving Oil Away to Cuba
This, from a press conference today by Commander General John F. Kelly (USMC), U.S. Southern Command, simply defies parody: The real shame of it is, of course, they have...
Sobremesa Chronicles
You know what I miss? I miss the truth. I yearn for a politician that speaks his or her mind, damn the torpedoes. Consider, for example, the past few weeks...
A political prisoner dies
(I met Lissette González back in college, when we were both interns at the UCAB’s Institute for Social and Economic Research. We were never close – she, the...
Conatel Breaks 4,832,000 Eggs to Make One-Egg Omelette
After a long battle, the central government can finally say they took down the real mastermind behind the evil “parallel dolar”: DolarToday’s mobile app. Sure, it couldn’t be...
Add $455 million to the tab
ICSID has ruled: Venezuela owes a further $455 million for the expropriation of Owens-Illinois’s bottling plants in Los Guayos, near Valencia and in Valera, in Trujillo state. That...
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