Crash dummy policies
Juan wrote a great article today with some really appalling numbers. 817 cars produced in February. January wasn’t great either. The first two months Venezuela produced 1,539 cars....
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Violence on campus, by @Naky
Chavistas love to repeat the tired old canard that the protest movements are “contained,” and “limited” to well-to do areas of Caracas. Just yesterday, the President was boasting in...
The eight-hundred-and-seventeen-car-per-month economy
Our friends over at the Latin American Herald Tribune have an alarming article on Venezuela’s squalid car market. GM has written down $400 million from its books, courtesy of Maduro’s...
Pax Chavista
The government has been pushing hard the idea that they want peace. I don’t doubt it. But it’s a very particular type of peace. It’s peace through domination. It’s the peace...
SICAD II: Lost in Translation
Confused about SICAD II? Wondering whether the new currency exchange system really is a legal, market-based alternative to the black-market, or whether it just plays one on TV? Don’t...
You did WHAT to free health and education programs?!!
“Created” them? Did you just say you created them?! Watch me blow the rest of that gasket over on The New Republic.
Painting the Grey Lady Rojo Rojita
Nicolás Maduro just published an Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times. We could do a point-by-point debunking of his bullshit claims but that would not the best use of our time here. The real question isn't "what" Maduro is saying, but “why?”
What happened inside Cadena Capriles?, by @TamoaC
Two weeks ago, this blog reported about the open case of censorship at Ultimas Noticias, Venezuela’s most popular newspaper, and the protest of their journalist staff. The stand-off ended...
Political rape
Last night, Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal said that, indeed, Maria Corina Machado’s expulsion from the National Assembly could stand. On its own, this shouldn’t seem so shocking – chavismo has...
Maduro threatens to bomb an entire state (Updated)
If I have to decree a state of exception especially for the state of Táchira, I am ready to do so. I am ready to decree it, and...
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