Red justice in numbers
The Venezuelan Judiciary has become a rubber stamp of the Executive Branch. But now we have the truth in cold, hard numbers… Four Venezuelan lawyers went to work proving...
Politics
Searching for a narrative
(A guest post by Venezuelan economist and Harvard Research Fellow José Ramón Morales, despairing at the pervasiveness of populist discourse, even in the face of a bankrupt economy)...
Looking for Brutus
George Packer has written a brilliant piece on the rise of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in the New Yorker. The article has many anecdotes and thought-provoking ideas, but one stuck with me. When...
Uribana Crisis Update
The latest official number of inmates killed by intoxication (combination of drugs and alcohol) earlier this week in Uribana Prison has reached 35, with another 20 in critical...
The plan is ...
So what did Venezuelan President Maduro say yesterday after Venezuela suffered a heavy blow at the OPEC meeting? Basically, we will not cut anything significant in the budget. Social and military investment...
New Uribana = old Uribana (Third Update)
The last few days have been really tense both inside and outside of Uribana Prison, near the city of Barquisimeto, where I live. This was where the second-worst prison riot...
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...
Getting our priorities straight
If you’re Venezuelan (and live here), a good night’s sleep is a rare occurrence. The other night, because I had just read Ewald Scharfenberg’s piece on how much the...
What if it's Diosdado who's vetoing devaluation?
2014 will be remembered as the Year of the Shortage. In Venezuela these days you need a prescription to buy acetominophen, a birth certificate to buy diapers, and...
Name MedioMalo Finance Minister!
For Throwback Thursday, we present MedioMalo, the 2008-era ViVe opposition hate figure who turns out to be far and away Venezuela’s most far-sighted economic forecaster.
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