The only thing we have to be anxious about is anxiety itself

Does the thought of First Lady Combattant Cilia Flores seeding relatives all through the upper echelons of the Venezuelan state render you anxious?

See, that right there is your clue that reporting on it is not to be tolerated.

A few hours before the new, government-friendly Globovision was served its first investigation for making us all antsy by reporting on shortages, they’d run a piece about the fact that Carlos Malpica Flores, the just-appointed National Treasurer, happens to be Cilia Flores’s nipote.

A few hours later and…