New media is all you need
Last Sunday, Setty informed us that an important pipeline carrying natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela was bombed, possibly by the FARC. He said: “It’s a big deal...
... and then there were none
Yesterday, chavista muckracker Alberto Nolia called for Henrique Capriles, governor or Miranda and Venezuela’s most popular opposition politician, to be disqualified from running in the 2012 elections. PSUV...
Reshuffling Your Peru Stereotypes
Over in Spanish, Raúl discusses the shifting meaning of Peruvianity.
Grimly Funny: Trip Advisor Caracas
So, a spell of weekend procrastination took me to Trip Advisor’s Caracas Hotel pages and… well, it really is an excellent way to waste half an hour. Behold...
Chávez and Gaddafi: The Axis of Unpaganda
After initially dithering, Hugo Chávez has now decisively taken sides in the rhetorical contest between Muamar Gaddafi and the Sane World. In the face of what is now...
Development is a state of mind
“In this country, GDP per capita could hit $20,000 per year, and people would still think like backwards Latin American assholes.” The words from my Chilean friend shocked...
Candidate watch (updated)
We know Oswaldo Álvarez Paz is going to be competing in the opposition’s primary. We also know that Antonio Ledezma is gunning for it as well. In fact, there...
Dog-bites-man Chronicles
The BBC is shocked, shocked that in Cuba things don’t work. The New York Times is appalled, appalled that there is corruption at the highest levels of the...
STOP SHOUTING!
(Note: The following guest post, by longtime reader and fellow blogger Roberto Silvers, is an open letter offering some free political advice for Venezuela’s parliamentary opposition) by Roberto Silvers...
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