Sabotage-o-meter
Nicolás Maduro keeps talking about an alleged “economic sabotage” against the country. Government ministers toe the line and blame the “S” word for almost everything (from the electric...
Cancillería blues
After four years without a salary increase, the workers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MPPRE) said “enough!” this week and staged a loud protest outside the Ministry’s Administrative...
Make gas a priority
Reading this story on the latest goings-on in the liquified natural gas market, I keep thinking back to 1990, the first time I heard about “Proyecto Cristóbal Colón.”...
Words-fail-me Chronicles
Nicolas Maduro creates a brand new Vice-Ministry for the “Supreme Social Happiness of the Venezuelan People”. No, this is not from the Chigüire Bipolar. This is 100% real...
"We will produce ONE HUNDRED BILLION BARRELS OF OIL"
Setty doesn’t beat around the bush: Rafael Ramírez has zero credibility.
Is Maduro really that desperate?
Sure sounds like it. He has designated December 8th, the day of the upcoming local election in Venezuela, as a “Day of Loyalty and Love for Chávez...
Star power
I had never seen this 1998 conversation between then-candidate Hugo Chávez and the formidable, recently deceased Oscar Yanes. I picked it up through my Facebook feed, from the...
Crazy Cadivi subsidizes Colombian smugglers
This story from Colombia’s Radio Caracol was an eye-opener. The money quote (translated by me): “The exchange regime in Venezuela promotes smuggling through that country. It’s an excellent...
Communicational Hegemony vs. Mozart
This piece of news made me desperately sad. Caracas’s lone classical music radio station, the Emisora Cultural, is now off the air in Caracas after CONATEL failed to process its...
A territorial mess
Back to basics: according to the Constitution of 1999, Venezuela is now organized into 23 States (which are divided in 335 Municipalities), a Capital District and a small group...
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