A history of Venezuelan democracy in 14 ballots
With a big hat tip to Guillermo Tell Aveledo and Alberto Mérida… The highlight for me?
Politics
Pants on Fire Chronicles (Updated)
Chávez’s latest issue ad looks like it’s trying to sell you shoes or sportwear more than like an election spot, so its obviously targeted at the young crowd....
The cost of Venezuela's oil discounts
$100 billion. That’s how much oil discounts have cost Venezuela since 1999, according to estimations by a group of oil researchers who go by the name of Subaeshi....
One Guy vs. the Petrokleptocracy
This week on FP.com, I try to explain to a gringo audience that the real problem with cases like the Aban Pearl’s isn’t just the unabashed looting of...
The BusCaracas that never comes
Travel in and out of Puerto Cabello and you’ll pass in front of the local Airport and the Naval Base next door. In recent months, you’ll have noticed...
The Aban Pearl Stew
Remember the sinking of the Aban Pearl exploration rig off the coast of Sucre State back in April 2010? Turns out there was a massive corruption guiso behind...
Perhaps the world's richest deposit of arbitration processes
The sprawling farce that is the Las Cristinas gold mine sunk to a new low yesterday, as Rusoro, the Russian firm that had been brought in to take over...
The only place in Venezuela without budget shortfall
Last week, the governors of the largest Venezuelan states (all of them part of the opposition) unsuccessfully asked for a meeting with President Hugo Chavez to discuss the...
Fun Mental Exercise of the Day
How would Venezuela be different if the constitution had allowed Jaime Lusinchi to be re-elected president in 1988? If instead of leaving a new administration without a penny...
Precariousness without prevarication
“The thing about life in Venezuela,” Katy said to me one evening, “is that everything is so … precarious.” It took me a while to digest what she...
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