How is our internet doing? In one word, badly
The Venezuela chapter of the recent “Freedom on the Net” report (by the NGO Freedom House) offers a pretty good summary of how the quality of Internet here...
Quién dijo que aquí no se hace periodismo de investigación?
What’s that you say? You wanna mug Mr. Alcasa? ‘mafraid you’ll have to get in line behind Mr. Glencore here. Take it away, Clavel Rangel, Katherine Pennacchio, Marianela Balbi and...
Giving people free money can be expensive!
Reading Quico’s arbitrage how-to-manual, the casual reader could be forgiven for thinking that these are the exceptions in Venezuela. It’s not like that. The revolution is all about...
Things that you cannot make up, part 17,286
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Our Real Comparative Advantage is in Arbitrage
Now that the government has ever-so-sovereignly declared that Bs.31,200 is the sovereign price of a ton of aluminum in the domestic market, why not try this fun experiment at home?...
Guayana, meet the Hegemony
All kinds of very strange stories have been circulating about the situation in the SOE-Hearland of Ciudad Guayana, where a SIDOR strike that’s about to enter its third...
Malaria is back with a vengeance
Since we reported about it back in June, the return of malaria (a disease that Venezuela had erradicated) has now reached a historical high. The latest official numbers...
The butterfly effect
On October 22, 1991, something momentuous took place in Venezuela. You probably don’t remember hearing about it in the news. Heck, maybe it didn’t even make the news...
The Best Reporting I've Seen on Venezuelan Prisons Yet
SBS, an Australian public broadcaster, is a bit of an unknown entity to me. But this report by Giovana Vitola from inside Margarita’s prison is an absolute tour...
Trip Advisor: Caracas
Sounds like a luvly place for a vacation, huh? The start of the season for two premier teams in this baseball-loving nation was thrown into doubt after thieves...
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