Venezuela, Warts and All
I have no idea who’s behind it, but I’m developing a serious addiction to País Verruga, a Facebook community that aggregates impossible/ridiculous/outlandish images from the election campaign. Here’s...
Rightsizing the Bolivarian dream
Another fun tidbit from R.G.Aveledo’s N24 interview comes at 9:06 (in the video link), when he’s being asked about a “secret Capriles plan” to phase out the government’s...
The Cochino Frito Offensive
In a long, fascinating interview with Mario Villegas on N24, MUD-chief Ramón Guillermo Aveledo makes a point that should’ve been plain, but hadn’t quite hit me so forcefully...
Dragunovs in Hell
According to one press report, inmates involved in last weekend’s Yare I riot had at least 100 assault rifles (!!), an M60 machine gun (500 rounds per minute to you and...
Gun Control in Venezuela is easier said than done
On the night of August 12th, a small Sucre Municipality (a.k.a. Petare) Police Post near a shopping mall was attacked by four armed thugs. Two police officers were wounded...
Converge on THIS, buddy...
Venezuelan polling tends to diverge wildly until the last, say, month-or-so before an election, and then polls seem to converge. (Why this happens remains one of life’s little...
Dip it in ink
In yet another blow to conspiracy theorists everywhere, the indelible ink that is to be used in the October 7th election passed the sniff test, as reported by...
File Under "Signs of the Apocalypse"
What’s scarier? That chavistas think these images are going to make da kidz vote for Chávez, or that they’re right, possibly? And, pardon me while I pick up...
The Venezuela-Guyana Blood Diamond Trail
Girish Gupta’s dissection of the Santa Elena de Uairén-to-Georgetown diamond trafficking route in Time is well worth a read: Underground traffickers agree. “You’d have to be blind to...
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