Do I give you whiplash?
"I don’t persecute anyone. Law enforcement persecutes. The law persecutes, but I don’t give out orders." Hugo Chávez a few hours ago, making the case for judicial independence,...
Oliver Stone watch #1
A few weeks ago, filmmaker Oliver Stone embarked on a publicity tour for his bro-mantic, critically-panned documentary on Hugo Chavez. Among the many myths that he spread, there...
Chabuki watch #7
Comin’ at you, fast and furious. The fat man yesterday, in a vain attempt to run away from his best friends: "We love Cuba very much, but Cuba...
Shouting "Fire" in an Empty Theater
The key thing to grasp about the Two Tweeters facing 11 year jail sentences in Bolívar state is that these people had zero influence. Luis Enrique Acosta seems to...
The Leaky Watermelon Scores LVL's Latest Screed
On this blog, we’ve been fairly dismissive about the proliferation of Noticias24 clone sites: a desperately crowded bandwagon full of news aggregators doing the same thing as Noticias24.com, but badly. LaPatilla.com is, at first...
Fancy a Metro Ride from Plaza Las Americas to Los Magallanes?
According to Google – you can go right ahead! GoogleMaps displays a dozen Caracas Metro stations that don’t exist yet. You can expect tourists relying on the service to show up...
Making Globovisión the story
Jackson Diehl has a predictably apocalyptical article in today’s Washington Post about the new charges being leveled against Globovisión’s owners, Guillermo Zuluaga and Nelson Mezerhane. While I was...
Andrés Iniesta Gives Me Back My Brain
Yesterday, after 30 days of football-fueled oligophreny, Andrés Iniesta gave me my brain back for another 47 months. Good of him, that.
Chabuki watch #6
The theater of the absurd continues. Here is the fat man yesterday, giving a political speech on the grounds of the Military Academy, reiterating that he is not...
Twitter lands them in the slammer
It had to happen. The Venezuelan government has just detained two people for things they wrote on their Twitter boards. One of them is Luis Acosta Oxford. His...
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