Well, if he didn’t own the electricity crisis before, he does now. In a virtuoso display of government-via-La Hojilla last night, Hugo Chávez fired the Electricity Minister for...
If any final confirmation of the fundamental lack of seriousness of the chavista project were needed, VTV’s ecstatic reception of JPMorgan’s decision to upgrade Venezuela’s bond ratings surely...
For the second time in a week, Hugo Chávez "challenged" the opposition to collect signatures and try to recall him. This is bizarre even for Chávez. A recall...
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Throughout the last decade, even as I’ve worked feverishly and hoped ardently for an early end to the Chavez disaster, a dark thought has haunted me: what if...
The Venezuelan government has just announced nationwide rolling blackouts affecting most of the country. Read the details here. The challenge for the opposition is how to spin this...
Far too little, far too late. That’s the bottom line. It’s important to get this right. Taking cheap shots at the devaluation as such is irresponsible and counterproductive....
You gotta hand it to Planning Minister Jorge Giordani. It took him eleven years but in the end – we’re not sure how – he managed to get...
The photos Chávez said he had of a US Orion P3 war plane invading Venezuelan air space last week? It’s a Wikipedia job: The Wikipedia File History shows the...
Despite some of the more excitable oppo commentary out there, there are good reasons to doubt whether yesterday’s devaluation is really likely to cause much of an inflation...
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