Omnishambles Chronicles
Nicolás Maduro had barely finished making his big Foreign Exchange Control system announcement yesterday before he was in damage control mode. Having initially announced that a sum roughly equivalent...
Cesppa, Cesna: Both are the same, yet different...
How’s this for an Orwelian agency title? The Strategic Center for the Security and Protection of the Fatherland (CESPPA) , tha thas been just set up by decree...
Bolívares! Bolívares! (UPDATED: Maduro loses)
In what has to be a first, the promotional video for Ciudad Bolívar’s sure-to-be-doomed candidacy for the 2019 Panamerican Games consists, mostly, of a jingle praising our currency....
Communicational hegemony = fun with numbers
Pro-government website Noticias 24 had an interesting headline this morning: In other words, Venezuela was one of the countries in Latin America that received the highest numbers of...
Merentes' sin? Brutal honesty
It’s hard to dislike poor Finance Minister Nelson Merentes. In a sea of chavista insanity, he usually comes across as a sort-of reasonable guy or, at the very...
The Habilit-ation condemnation overreaction
Nicolás Maduro went to the National Assembly to ask for special powers, i.e., the ability to rule by decree. He doesn’t yet have the votes, but it sounds...
The curious case of Mariana Rondón
Ten days ago, the Venezuelan film Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) won the Golden Shell, the highest prize of the prestigious San Sebastián International Film Festival. The small urban...
The worse it gets, the better
Writing around the time of the Russian hyperinflation (1919), Lenin had this to say… Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This...
A hat tip and an ear-tug
We already had a King of Re-Bar, and now we have an Aluminium Tsar. It’s great to see the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad’s Joseph Poliszuk really digging into the affairs of...
Adventures in birtherism
The Venezuelan birther movement started out on the fringes of political discussion. It was a subject few people dared to touch, and when they did, it was a...
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