Journalistic Technique 101: The Mosquita Muerta Cold Call
So how can we tell for sure that Arturo Cubillas Fontán is still working at the National Lands Institute’s Security Department? Easy. Just pick up a phone, call...
Mental Health Break: A Day in the Life of Caracas
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8560269&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Epilogo 2009 from Diego Di Marcantonio on Vimeo. It pays to watch this all the way through to the end…
These guys aren't even tryin' anymore...
You could waste a lot of valuable time picking through the smouldering piles of intellectual rubble that get passed off as "news, views and analysis" on any given...
Demagoguing the FARC-ETA Case
Over the last few days, Spanish conservatives have been desperately trying to one-up each other’s outrage-o-meter readings over Venezuela’s alleged role in supporting FARC’s collaboration with ETA. It’s...
The view from your drought: Salto Angel, Venezuela
Angel Falls, Venezuela. The world’s tallest waterfall, or what’s left of it. Pass the Zoloft.
Becoming a medium for Chavez's tsunami of bullshit
I spent an intense hour and a half yesterday Livetweeting Chávez’s Cadena. I highly recommend it as a hobby. Livetweeting forces you to pay close attention to the...
When numbers attack
Last week, the Chávez-friendly polling firm IVAD published its latest survey. The numbers are devastating for the government. While 48% of Venezuelans would like Chávez to end his term...
All you need to know about the government's handling of the electric crisis...
If you can’t quite make it out, it says that after a first meter reading, Corpoelec found that 37% of major energy consuming companies had met the government’s...
Of Kings and Tyrants
One perk associated with my (otherwise embarrassing) fascination with ancient history is that I get to go on riffs like this: The ancient Greeks made a sharp conceptual...
Arturo Cubillas Fontán
I haven’t had time to quite digest it all yet, but I have a strong feeling that "Arturo Cubillas Fontán" is a name we’re going to be hearing...
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