To hunt a rat
Today we learned that the webpage of everyone’s favorite satirical rodent, El Chiguire Bipolar, has been hacked. This coincides with a wave of international publicity that has seen...
But ... what did he say?!
The largest shareholder in Venezuela’s sole remaining opposition-minded TV channel, Globovisión, has been arrested. (Update: apparently, the court let him out on bail, sort of) His alleged crime?...
Autocracy in Infinite Regress
As the regime fattens up its list of political prisoners by shoving the president of Globovisión, Guillermo Zuloaga, into jail, you can’t help but reflect on the sheer uselessness of...
Weisbrot in his Labyrinth
At times, you almost feel bad for Mark Weisbrot, the dean of the dwindling corps of quasi-respectable Chávez apologists in D.C. A few years ago, back when it...
"The Constitution reads more and more like subversive pamphlet..."
The phrase is Teodoro Petkoff’s. When he penned it, a few years, he was reaching for humor through hyperbole, but as time passes, his words have come to...
Thoughtcrime
One time Zulia State governor and center-right candidate for the presidency Oswaldo Álvarez Paz will be spending his first night behind bars tonight for what can only be described as...
File under "sign of the apocalypse #21,382,864"
Why do I have this image in my head of Chávez playing a fiddle somewhere?
Tchee-GWEE-reh Pa' Todo El Mundo
Boy, I can’t wait to see the Capybara’s reaction to this.
The Chavington Post
Dear lord almight. Painter, tank commander, baseball player, military ethicist, variety show host, coup plotter, poet and now…blogger! It had to come to this. It was just bound to. Welcome,...
One Political Prisoner's Ordeal
What the government is doing to Judge María Lourdes Afiuni staggers the mind. No other single story captures Venezuela’s slide to dictatorship quite like her’s. Jailed summarily simply for...
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