El Reventón IV
A few days ago, I was privileged to attend a screening of El Reventón I and II, two documentaries by Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Oteyza. Using archival footage from...
Economy
Twenty Questions for Rafael Ramírez
Here’s a mental exercise for you. Imagine just for a second that PDVSA was a properly run oil firm with an adequate worker safety culture and well-developed mechanisms...
An Exhaustive Investigation
This morning, President Chávez promised an exhaustive investigation into the causes of last night’s fatal blast at Amuay Refinery. The sun hasn’t even set yet, and that investigation...
Amuay's Maintenance Record Under the Spotlight
As you try to make sense of last night’s huge explosion in Amuay, do bear in mind that just this April, the indispensible Venepiramides was already on the...
Amuay Daylight Photos Start to Emerge - Yowza!
Last night’s huge blast at Amuay Refinery in Paraguaná is quickly turning into an object lesson in the impossibility of controlling information in the Twitter era. As the...
Amuay: Not your run-of-the-mill refinery screw up
Last night’s explosion and fire in Amuay – the larger bit of the mammoth Paraguana Refining Complex – was big enough to wake up most of Punto Fijo....
Los responsables de las fallas eléctricas son unos animales
First the Iguana, then the Possum, and now…
Por Eso Es Que Estamos Como Estamos Chronicles
Venezuela’s summary in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report. Read it and weep… (click to enlarge)
How to lose businesses and alienate investors
Last week (during a house-giveaway cadena), the comandante presidente committed himself yet again to work side by side with the private sector if he’s reelected on October 7th....
Baptism by Demonic Shit
[Hat Tip: The increasingly invaluable País Verruga,which styles itself “La revista virtual con lo más protuberante de lo que ocurre al norte de Sudamérica y de lo que...
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