The government's ombudsman
One of the new state institutions created in the 1999 Constitution was the figure of the People’s Ombudsman, in charge of defending citizens’ rights against the state. Fourteen...
One of the new state institutions created in the 1999 Constitution was the figure of the People’s Ombudsman, in charge of defending citizens’ rights against the state. Fourteen...
So, when the Sabaneta prison “pran” (I never know how to translate that…”prison gang dictator”?) and the Sabaneta prison warden disagree, who gets his way? Care to venture a...
And so, one year on, the Winner in the Amuay Explosion Excuse Category, mención Transparently-Fabricated-but-Damnit-We’re-Sticking-With-Our-Story is… [envelope-rustling…] Sabotage! Well how about that! No surprise here, folks: Sabotage was the hot...
So, I’ll be hawking the book at ULibro, la Feria del Libro de Bucaramanga in Colombia all next week. Around for that? Write in and and we’ll have coffee.
Yesterday’s Capriles event in Rio Chico, narrowcast live on Capriles.tv, has more or less completed the full-body existential funk I’ve been inhabiting recently. Talking to a small audience...
Last week, when Eudomar Tovar was named Central Bank head, lots was said about the new breed of Merentes-backed “pragmatists” in the nation’s top economic policy-making posts, with Tovar...
Mindful of the need to establish credibility in his new, high-profile job, BCV-president Eudomar Santos Tovar wasted no time telling a massive, disprovable-with-a-five-second-google-search whopper of a lie today....
Credit where credit is due. People say chavismo is terrible at planning, but it just isn’t true: the double-time dismantling of what was left of Venezuela’s democratic institutions...
Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres has revealed his latest plan to fight crime: Deploying a lot of security cameras. A lot. Thanks to a brand new deal with...
Another day, another violent incident against a hospital worker in the hands of chavista thugs. This one happened at the UCV Medical Center. I detect a pattern here....
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