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Reuters Busted for Indecent Exposure: The Automobile Industry in Venezuela
May 13, 2010 ... cheats back on the straight and narrow. The recent case of 47 butchers being arrested and charged with price speculation ... -
FiveThirtyEight Gets it Wrong on Venezuela
April 11, 2014 Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project U.S. elections, launched a new blog – FiveThirtyEight.com last month. It’s been off to a rough start, Paul Krugman wrote soon after its launch, “[S]loppy and casual opining with a bit of data used, as the old saying goes, the way a drunkard uses a lamppost — for support, not illumination.” I leave it to the reader to decide whether the FiveThirtyEight article on March 17 by Dorothy Kronick on Venezuela fits this description. -
Scarcity and Starvation? Venezuelan Food FAQs
October 5, 2013 ... 7: Is it “normal” for Venezuelans to spend four hours waiting in line to do their shopping? Short answer: As ... BBC Radio 4 viewers have been led to believe, waiting five hours in line at a supermarket is not “normal”. Lines at ... mostly consisting of once weekly shopping trips. Four hours isn't impossible, but anecdotal evidence from myself ... -
Venezuela – A Last Warning
May 20, 2016 ... onto the black market. From the family that queues for hours and then re-sells some of what they’ve bought, to the ... to criminal gangs who hire people to queue for hours and buy whatever subsidised products are available ... it over and hand it to the communal power”. Less than 48 hours later, in an interview with Reuters, the vice-president ... -
Steve Ellner: Democratization of PSUV is Key to Chavismo’s Future
October 10, 2016 ... First, you have the popular sectors waiting on lines for hours and hours but they are able to buy goods that they need because ... I’m not denying that those lines are sometimes 4, 5, 6 hours which is a terrible situation. I’m not denying the ... -
Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Does It Mean That the Left Has Failed?
October 27, 2016 ... economy for some time now. Shortages of food and medicine, hours-long lines for basic goods, incomes eroded by ... from arbitrage of some sort -- from waiting in line for hours for a small allocation of subsidized food and reselling ... -
Devaluation, Consumerism, and the Media
February 11, 2013 ... Asia, often children, have to work in sweatshops for 16 hours a day or more, with zero labor stability and absurdly ... -
Calling All Venezuelans to the Table
June 13, 2016 ... lawns to plant food with my neighboring children. Two more hours and I”ll be up with the dawn, awaiting Fabi and ...