We don't always vote with our pockets
Quico made a point last Friday about how Venezuelans, like other voters, vote with their pockets. In the midst of an oil boom, and with the economy growing...
Quico made a point last Friday about how Venezuelans, like other voters, vote with their pockets. In the midst of an oil boom, and with the economy growing...
The current head of the Venezuelan Parliament’s Comisión de Contraloría (or Government Oversight Committee), Pedro “DirecTV is watching you” Carreño announced that his body had solved 438 of the...
The latest from the Capriles’ camp uses a first-hand account of how negative the Chavernment’s policy of expropiations has been for the country. This ad from the Chavez’...
When I talk about October’s election, people invariable ask me about “the numbers”. ¿Cómo van los números? That kind of thing. They mean the polls, of course. But...
Time to take the pulse on this Comments-via-Email experiment. With no Comments-Section time-sink, we posted much more often than usual to the main page. That meant that we...
…en español.
That weird Orwellian vibe on State Media these days may be clear as day to Venezuelans, but it’s tough, very tough to get it across to a neutral....
The Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela, the Chavernment’s house-building program, is going into overdrive right before the election. Of course, unintended consequences come along any rushed process, like workplace...
It’s good to see the Supreme Tribunal wrestling with the truly consequential challenges of our time: A las bóvedas de los museos deben ir a parar las obras...
A reader points out a gap in my Stealth Fraud/Open Fraud framework. Call it the Cara e’ Tabla Fraud. Just picture it: After a night of wild speculation,...
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