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Dispatches from the other end of the sanity spectrum

There’s something grimly funny about this story on reactions to Mario Silva‘s whacked out personal attack on Miguel Henrique Otero..and something pathetic, heart-rending about its studious avoidance of repeating the phrase...

Francisco Toro August 12, 2011

Economy

9,621,334,845.49 vs. 314

Nine billion Six-hundred and twenty-one million Three hundred and thirty four thousand Eight-hundred and forty five dollars and forty-nine cents. That, according to new revelations from Mérida National...

Francisco Toro August 12, 2011

Economy

Searching for black ink, but finding red

Ever wonder how all those chavista companies are doing? Do they make enough to even pay their bills? How much did they really cost? Are the workers there...

Juan Cristobal Nagel August 11, 2011

Economy

Venezuelan Coffee Growers vs. the Frente Starbuckista de Liberación Nacional

There’s a certain guilty amusement to seeing chavistas tangle themselves up in knots having to relearn, through trial and error (and error, and error, and error, and error…)...

Francisco Toro August 10, 2011

Life

Historical trends as revolutionary achievements

Chavista deputy Aristóbulo Istúriz was heard today mouthing off about how Venezuela’s income distribution, the less unequal in Latin America, is a revolutionary achievement, only possible thanks to...

Juan Cristobal Nagel August 8, 2011

Life

Savage capitalism alert!

Are you in the market for a 1953 Ford Pisicorre with eight seats? Do you want to use it as a boat taxi? How about a brand new laptop,...

Juan Cristobal Nagel August 8, 2011

Economy

Francisco Toro plans to win the Boston Marathon

I mean, in theory, I’d love to win the Boston Marathon. Not that I’m willing to train 8-10 hours per day, you understand. Or eat a marathon runner’s diet....

Francisco Toro August 6, 2011

Life

Iris Varela, no longer funny

I’ll admit, when Iris Varela was appointed to a cabinet position, I smiled broadly. Iris is a nutter, a loose cannon, the personification of unhinged chavista maximalism, but...

Francisco Toro August 5, 2011

Politics

Chavista paper thinks US Embassy is its bitch

Ernesto Villegas, the director of the rag that first posted the false news about the Venezuelan soccer team’s visas, has decided to double down. He insists the rumor...

Juan Cristobal Nagel August 5, 2011

Life

Torture the pots

Over at the Spanish site, I discuss Chile’s new normal and the memories it brings me. And by the way, the New York Times story on the Chilean...

Juan Cristobal Nagel August 5, 2011

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