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An Ominous Opening for Venezuela’s New Parliament
By Juan Nagel / For the first time in the 17 years since the late Hugo Chávez swept into power, the opposition has firm control of one of the branches of government. This ...
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Chile’s robber barons
By Juan Nagel /
Capitalism does need to be saved from its own excesses in Chile, but few public leaders today have the moral authority to do so.
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Venezuela’s most famous dissident gets 13 years
By Juan Nagel /
The trial against Leopoldo López, the jailed leader of Venezuela’s opposition, was never expected to be fair. Yet when Judge Susana Barreiros handed ...
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The cost of Venezuela’s collapse
By Juan Nagel /
Was the death of South American rock idol Gustavo Cerati yet another example of Venezuela’s interminable collapse?
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Corrupto-landia
By Juan Nagel /
Donald Trump was right on one thing: corruption in Mexico and Latin America is unbelievable. As the series of scandals from Chile to Brazil to Mexico have ...
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Looking into the Black Box of Venezuela’s Economy
By Juan Nagel /
Spotting evidence of the destruction that Venezuela’s politicians have inflicted on the economy isn’t terribly hard. In fact, you start to see it as soon ...
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Everybody loves infrastructure
By Juan Nagel /
Latin America invests about 2% of GDP on infrastructure. Between 1992 and 2011 China invested an average of 8.5% of GDP in infrastructure per year. Given ...
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How to engineer a Latin American miracle
By Juan Nagel /
The story of dashed hopes and sudden halts is a painful yet familiar one for all of us. As we lick our wounds and take stock of yet another lost ...
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