Disarmament and Its Discontents
Take a look to this report from Brazil’s newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo: “The family nanny for Elías Jaua (currently the Venezuelan Communes Minister) was detained in the early...
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Africa? We wish!
I keep promising Juan I’ll stop boring readers with these bond stories, but then I can’t resist. Check out today’s New York Times story on the superhot market for...
Boa sorte, Brasil
We’ve been tempted to write about the rocky Presidential election in Brazil, but have held back due to how volatile it has been. One day a candidate dies in a...
Budgets matter
It must be difficult being a macroeconomic analyst in Venezuela. Case in point: the country’s budget. We all know the government spends via the official budget, which gets approved...
Could the Saudi strategy be working?
Take it away, OilPrice.com … “Slumping oil prices are putting pressure on U.S. drillers. The number of active rigs drilling for oil and gas fell by their most...
The pain from the China loans
One of the more interesting angles of the China financing story is the way it is hampering Venezuela’s ability to weather the current slump in the oil prices. Here...
Fifty Shades of Default
Until a few weeks ago, I thought default was like pregnancy: you either are or you aren’t. Instead, 2014 is turning into an education on the grey area between...
What Newsprint-geddon hath wrougth: The hegemony's newsprint monopoly
On October 1st, Caracas newspaper Tal Cual announced in an editorial that the paper would run out of newsprint before the end of this month. As the deadline...
$12,000,000,000 in the Hole (and Digging)
Bank of America today estimates that, if oil prices stabilize at the level they’ve already fallen to, Venezuela will have to find an extra $12 billion in foreign financing to...
How is the disarmament plan doing so far?
It has been almost a month since the voluntary disarmament plan I wrote about last week was first announced by Nicolas Maduro, and finally we have an official number from...
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