Getting our priorities straight
If you’re Venezuelan (and live here), a good night’s sleep is a rare occurrence. The other night, because I had just read Ewald Scharfenberg’s piece on how much the...
If you’re Venezuelan (and live here), a good night’s sleep is a rare occurrence. The other night, because I had just read Ewald Scharfenberg’s piece on how much the...
2014 will be remembered as the Year of the Shortage. In Venezuela these days you need a prescription to buy acetominophen, a birth certificate to buy diapers, and...
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I make the case that Spain’s rising party Podemos – which is now leading the polls in Spain – is chavismo’s first...
For Throwback Thursday, we present MedioMalo, the 2008-era ViVe opposition hate figure who turns out to be far and away Venezuela’s most far-sighted economic forecaster.
Twenty Four hours before the Enabling Act expired Nicolas Maduro signed 28 new laws to “diversify and secure the economic growth of 2015.” Let us rewind to one year ago, when...
When readers suggested I explore the relationship between Venezuela and China on the blog, I was less than enthralled. After all, pretty much all you need to know...
Leopoldo Lopez, jailed by chavismo for helping light the spark that led to the street protests that erupted nationwide in February, was highlighted by Foreign Policy magazine as one...
The U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity and to impose targeted sanctions on the...
(This is a guest post by longtime reader Sasha Ojeda Mendoza, a Dutch-Venezuelan political scientist and blogger based in Amsterdam. Take it away, Sasha.) Entrenched politics and how...
Alek Boyd is a fellow Venezuelan blogger who currently resides in London and edits the webpage Infodio, dedicated to unveiling many of the schemes involving a sub-class of chavistas...
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