Jaime Lusinchi, 1924-2014
Jaime Lusinchi, whose 1984 to 1989 presidency is remembered as possibly the least competent of the 1936-1999 period, died last night in Caracas. The last of the old-style Acción...
Jaime Lusinchi, whose 1984 to 1989 presidency is remembered as possibly the least competent of the 1936-1999 period, died last night in Caracas. The last of the old-style Acción...
Isolation has become the keyword in Venezuela: the heavy debt owed by the government to foreign companies, from airlines to credit card companies and any number of service providers...
There are alternatives to oil … There’s electricity in solar and wind, and electric cars. We can begin to do workarounds, albeit not rapidly, but over time we...
As the debate about whether Venezuela is facing macroeconomic adjustment or macroeconomic collapse rages on, some traders* at giant Japanese investment bank Nomura make the case for collapse about as succinctly as is...
The reported firing of former Anzoategui State Governor David DeLima as chairman of Grupo Últimas Noticias (fomerly known as Cadena Capriles) after only three months on the job...
David de Lima, the cartoon-bad-guy political commissar sent to keep Cadena Capriles’s employees in line, is reportedly out of a job, after having taken a bull’s approach to...
A few days ago 18-year-old Clider Martínez was taken in by the National Guard while protesting in Los Palos Grandes. After being processed he was sent to...
I’m with my cousin Elena. We’re in a Maracaibo supermarket. Half an hour earlier they had announced the arrival of cooking oil – two bottles per person – and the...
This…errr…how to put it? This…this. Ummm…this is. This. Uhhh. This…I mean, uh, this. O sea…THIS coño.
I missed last week’s “Human Rights Week”, but I still wanted to write about a particular case that got my attention. Better late than never. In the wake of...
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