The only way is bootleg
Long ago, my family loved to watch movies on the weekends, so visiting the video store became a Saturday ritual. That ritual changed along with technology: from VHS,...
El Caracazo nuestro de cada día
So I’m just now – far too late, I know – settling down to read Mirtha Riveros’s La Rebelión de los Náufragos, a blow-by-blow account the pivotal second...
I can't win, can I?
A reader: This is not a comment about comments. This is a comment on “A moratorium on comments-about-comments”. Since I am subject to the moratorium to comments about...
A new benchmark for development, ctd.
A reader agrees with JC that Chile is getting closer to be a developed country: “I can speak from experience… What I have seen throughout my many visits...
SIDOR goes into collision course
After Ferrominera’s internal election, the situation inside Guayana’s empresas básicas is getting more intense by the day. Steel-maker SIDOR is undergoing big change. Rafael Gil Barrios, current president of the...
The bachaqueros are still at it
Remember the bachaqueros? The goajiro gasoline smugglers from Zulia State are not taking the recent crackdown on smuggling sitting down. When the Army and the National Guard were...
There's still room for Orimulsion...
Gustavo Coronel, who has the unfair advantage added bonus of actually knowing what he’s talking about, weighs in on the Orimulsión debate: The Orinoco region contains different grades...
Blast from the Past Chronicles: Orimulsion Edition
The Capriles Campaign’s decision to bring back Orimulsion from the dustbin of failed innovation history has introduced something the campaign had almost completely lacked until now – an...
A new benchmark for development
I’ve been traveling through Chile with my family for most of the past week. As is typical when Venezuelans come to Chile, they have been amazed at the...
Bolivarian Navy's mysterious accident
The Brazilian press is reporting that this Venezuelan Navy ship ran aground near the port of Fortaleza last Friday. The PC-22 patrol vessel “Warao” was about to take part in joint...
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