Fear and Loathing in Carnavales
Our exclusive interview with El Rey Momo. En Spanglish cabilla.
Our exclusive interview with El Rey Momo. En Spanglish cabilla.
Your briefing for Carnaval Weekend, Feb 25 - 27, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Dirty streets, risky driving, a penetrating stench of urine in the air, terrible music blaring from every corner and thousands of people getting drunk while watching a bull agonize: for four days every February, Mérida becomes the Capital of the Third World.
In Tropico 4, I discovered that life in a ridiculously over the top Eastern European game designer's delirium of a dysfunctional Banana Republic is...pretty much indistinguishable from what goes on outside my window.
Enough has been said about Adrián Solano and his #TropicalMierda take on cross country skiing. Little has been said about the morons who hailed him worthy of defending.
There's an underpaid intern somewhere in a BCV basement office trying his damnedest to make our exchange rate spread look like a random number. He's failing.
Humanitarian agencies are now studying Venezuela's using formal tools designed to quantify hunger crises in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. They find Venezuela's most vulnerable areas are fast approaching a serious humanitarian crisis.
Briefing for Thursday, February 23, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo
Watch the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the American Enterprise Institute sponsored panel discussion featuring Luis Almagro, Eric Farnsworth, Patrick Duddy, Hannah Dreier, Roger Noriega and Antonio Mora.
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