Fire Ramírez
Today’s OPEC meeting in Vienna has all the makings of a turning point in the history of oil, and Venezuela. In agreeing not to cut oil production quotas in the...
Economy
A benchmark for our troubles
This has been a gruesome year for Venezuela. But as our economy collapses, economists are finding it hard to assess just how screwed up we are, since Venezuela’s Central Bank refuses to...
Low oil prices don't kill people
Imagine blaming the rain for the leaks in your ceiling. It doesn’t make sense, right? And yet this is what is going on in Venezuela’s public sphere, as...
Keystone XL Isn't a Threat to the Environment; It's a Threat to Venezuela
News filtered down this week that, to try to help hanging-by-a-thread Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu, the outgoing Senate Democratic leadership may allow a vote on the Keystone XL...
Why is there inflation?
Our friends from Seis por Derecho give us the lowdown. In Spanish.
"I'm a bachaquero"
(It was starting to get lonely being the only zuliano on the blog, so I did something about it. Meet Roberto Torres Luzardo, a talented journalist based in Maracaibo,...
Shielding Wall Street from the debacle
This Reuters article on a Boston forum of Wall Street-type investors is very illuminating. Obviously, the markets are jittery about what is undoubtedly “the worst-managed economy in the world.”...
Go bold, go big
While we were on break, a Reuters story came out about potential buyers going on a tour of our Citgo refineries – you know, the ones we are...
Money for baseball (and trips for free)
Before the baseball season began back in October, the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) publicly thanked government currency distributor CENCOEX for handling their requests right on schedule. But now...
The $776 lie
Nicolás Maduro raised the minimum wage by 15% last night, starting December 1st. Quickly, government news agencies began spewing the lie – there really is no other way...
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