Moron Risk
It’s hard to pick out which is the more munificent of the money quotes in Katia Porzecanski’s Bloomberg piece about Wall Street investment banker types mobbing the Manhattan law...
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Venezuela sanctions bill passes in the US Senate
The Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 has passed the US Senate. The bill includes provisions for targeted sanctions against individuals linked to the...
The "pet cock" gave them away
Five weeks ago, our pal Setty published a terrific article for the Columbia Journalism Review on scams and the media. Using Arevenca, the scam Venezuelan company whose president, Francisco Javier González, has...
The Castillian horse
This article by Spain’s El País is a bombshell. In a secret report, Venezuelan ambassador to Spain Mario Isea talks about the opportunity chavismo has in Podemos, the...
Against Crime Fatalism
Think there’s nothing politicians can do to clamp down on crime in Latin America? Think again.
Bye-bye Landrieu
Perhaps you remember U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana? You know, the one who blocked the bill to impose sanctions to certain members of the Venezuelan government because...
Venezuela isn't Germany in 1938, it's Germany in 1921
On September 1st this year, Bs.87 would buy you $1 in Cúcuta. Today, those same 87 bolos will buy you 50 cents. That’s a 100% rise in the...
The Animal Farmification of Venezuelan Politics
Corporate jets owned by a Venezuelan State oil company are being abused by regime cronies to take their families on pleasure trips to Colorado, Hawaii, Australia, Paris, Bilbao and...
A living reminder of their failure
I have a theory as to why Maria Corina Machado gets under chavistas’ skin so much. No, it doesn’t have to do with her gender. I’ve thrown that...
Science under fire
I have fond memories of the IVIC, the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research. I only got to spend a few months there, specifically in the Cellular Neuropharmacology Lab as part of a...
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