The Only Post about Crystallex You'll Ever Need to Read
Setty captures the zany criminality that permeates everything about the massive Las Cristinas mine so well in this post, he makes all further comment superfluous. Added bonus: I...
Chabuki watch, #5
The attempts to convince Venezuelans he’s just a middle-of-the-road guy are not restricted to economics. As the fat man said yesterday, while a chavista "priest" blessed him by...
Chabuki watch, #4
The Master Thespian himself, on yesterday’s Aló, Narcisista, doing his best Sybil imitation while talking about himself in the third person once again: “(Business groups) Fedecámaras) and Consecomercio are engaging...
No FODA, chico
A couple of questions spring to mind in the wake of Chávez’s "CESNA Decree", which allows him, discretionally, to "classify" essentially any piece of information, public or private, and...
Chávez’s War on the Economy
For Hugo Chávez to declare "Economic War" in June 2010 is a little bit like for Adolf Hitler to take 5 minutes off his busy schedule on April...
Rediscovering the Whys and Wherefores of Democratic Institutionality
Teodoro Petkoff has an enlightening piece on the conflict in Polar, where workers are coming to the defense of their company. Reading it, it occurs to me that maybe,...
Santos pummels Mockus (updated twice)
We all but predicted Antanas Mockus would coast to victory in the Colombian election, but Colombia’s voters had another plan. Today, in the first round of voting, Colombian...
Where we live
A few days ago, I wrote a piece for the Venezuelan Internet magazine Prodavinci on the importance of property rights in Venezuela’s poor barrios. (Click here if you’d...
Journey into the Middle of the Night
France’s L’Express news weekly publishes this chilling photo-essay stemming from a police ride-along in Petare. [Hat tip: EE]
Government by Force, coming to a hospital corridor near you
A while back, when I was writing about the jailing of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a reader who spends a lot of time in Petare wrote in to tell...
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