Merentes' sin? Brutal honesty
It’s hard to dislike poor Finance Minister Nelson Merentes. In a sea of chavista insanity, he usually comes across as a sort-of reasonable guy or, at the very...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
The Habilit-ation condemnation overreaction
Nicolás Maduro went to the National Assembly to ask for special powers, i.e., the ability to rule by decree. He doesn’t yet have the votes, but it sounds...
Adventures in birtherism
The Venezuelan birther movement started out on the fringes of political discussion. It was a subject few people dared to touch, and when they did, it was a...
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...
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 smoking squirt gun
This is the video that proves, PROVES the expelled American diplomats are responsible for everything wrong in Venezuela. Words fail me. Extra points for the first reader to...
Unwitting victims
Yesterday Nicolás Maduro expelled three diplomats from the US Embassy. This was all a temper tantrum, a diversion based on false accusations as we all know. But you...
#QQSM, or rather, #QQRebuscarse
Quico’s video is downright depressing. Instead, this cool takedown of Venezuela’s version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” by Gabriel Núñez and Elena Sánchez, is comedy gold....
On the waterfront
Reading this story about how close we are to a collapse in our ports, about how there are 434 thousand tons of food waiting to be unloaded, about...
Snow in Havanna
As you know, an enormous haul of cocaine made its way into an Air France 777 A340 that flew from Caracas to Paris last week. While a few...
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