The Indecent Genealogy of Exchange Controls
Every family is dysfunctional, but the Venezuelan exchange control system has a particularly useless progeny.
You say "to-may-to", I say "humanitarian crisis." Let's call the whole thing off...
In good Bolivarian fashion, my mom tried her hand at asymmetrical urban agriculture of the sixth generation. Not a bad hobby. As economic policy?! Please.
A Tale of Two Cadivis
I used to love Cadivi, but now I despise it. It is the lynchpin of a failed government: opaque, corrupt and unspeakably negligent.
A Marathon, Not a Sprint
Smart political movements know when the time comes for a tactical retreat. Now's the time to withdraw the three Amazonas deputies and fight on with 109.
Venezuela tops world inflation
"Say, Mr. Bus Driver, why are you speeding toward that cliff?"
Can this AN Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time?
We tend to ask what one thing the new National Assembly should focus on first. But the new AN will need to do 15 things at once, and all of them well.
Catching the Nutcracker at the Teresa Carreño
Caracas's flagship Teresa Carreño Theater has no coffee in the coffeeshop and no tickets in the ticket booths. What it does have, though, is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. And it remains magnificent, just as it has been for the last 20 years.
PSUV Can't Fix the Economy's Problems Because it Can't See Them
At its Economic Conclave, we saw a PSUV as radically divorced from reality as it's ever been. ¿Rectificación? Yo te aviso.
Quitting before you start
Two Chavista assembly-members elect have said they won't take on the seats they were just elected to, preferring their old mayor's jobs. More may follow.
Rolling in the deep
Lashing out at the poor just because you're sad is a new low for the Venezuelan President.
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