The View From Your Electric Bill: 6 cents/kWh in La Paz, Bolivia
Continuing our series on world electric charges, we get to La Paz, Bolivia, where a kilowatt hour sets you back 0.41 bolivianos, or about 6 US cents. ...
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The View From Your Electric Bill: 11 cents/kWh in Jacksonville, FL
Continuing our series on electricity pricing and the Venezuelan electric crisis, we find out that, in Jacksonville, Florida, they pay 11 cents a kWh…what do Venezuelans pay? Send us...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 13 cents/kWh in Michigan
Here’s a revolutionary insight: maybe underpricing leads to overconsumption! Could that have anything to do with the electric crisis in Venezuela? You tell us. In Michigan, you pay...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 7 cents/kWh in Montreal
As the electricity crisis deepens in Venezuela, it strikes me that one basic variable is missing from this whole discussion: price. In all the back-and-forth about drought and...
In defense of Simon Romero
Quico and I got into a bit of a disagreement this morning about the tone of his recent posts on Simón Romero’s work covering Venezuela for the New...
When bland journalism reads like a hatchet job
Reading Simón Romero’s New York Times piece on the intensifying wave of repression in recent weeks is a strange experience – and one that paints a vivid picture...
Mutatis Mutandi
Julian Sánchez says: One of the more striking features of the contemporary chavista movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is...
One Premise and Three Theses on the Visibility of Sausage Making
Premise: It goes without saying that NiNis aren’t hanging on the edge of their seats watching every twist and turn of the MUD sausage-making saga. Nor, for that matter,...
What's good for the goose is good for Mirand-er
A tragedy in eight acts: Act I – Contrary to the wishes of sensible, prescient, and highly intelligent voices in the opposition opinion-sphere, the opposition umbrella group decides...
Clear as MUD
"Chamo, lets do an Oswaldo Álvarez Paz week…I mean, why not? It’s Semana Santa, there aren’t going to be any other news…" ...
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