If Simón Romero’s profile doesn’t make you smile, you have no heart. Polls show that his approval ratings have been declining, but “I don’t give a damn,” insisted...
Venezuela right now is like a marriage where the wife, let’s call her Populus, has only partial information about the financial affairs of her husband, let’s call him...
In Foreign Affairs, Javier Corrales coins a term I had not heard before: “conservative anti-imperialism.” It describes Chávez’s approach to relations with the US: antagonistic, but not that...
…punchline here. Spending-led “socialism” can’t last. For years, Venezuela has been borrowing at credit-card level interest rates. As the country runs out of money and out of people willing to...
An “inspection” to a coffee factory in Caracas was the perfect PR opportunity for the Chavernment to present an image of unity, specially between its two top men:...
Just as a friendly reminder that, outside the Chávez Deathwatch bubble, life in Venezuela remains just as fucked up as it ever was, consider this: the pran (read: prison...
Over on the IHT, I meditate on what a long, strange week it’s been… Given the impenetrability of Cuban state secrecy, it’s hard not to speculate that even...
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