Alicia Bárcena's blinders
The head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), well-known chavista hack Alicia Bárcena, was in Caracas yesterday. While she was there, she praised...
Life
#VenezuelaEsEsperanza #VenezuelaEsPlomo
A few days ago, Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev published a story on the black market for bullets. After reading it, one comes away with the clear impression that the military’s...
Did they hand out straightjackets in this drill?
At first I had no idea what this drill was about. Fake doctors? Fake blood? Sound effects? People running aimlessly? Why, there was even a kid dressed up...
With Friends Like These Chronicles
Fresh from the delicious story of Karen Halnon, the Penn State Abington sociology prof who recently declared she was smoking on an international airline flight in solidarity with the...
Stay In The Closet
The statements by Freddy Bernal, saying that gay people can be cops as long as they don’t say so, are apalling, infuriating and shameful. Furthermore, to see a news anchor...
To Recall is to Live, Winning Ugly Edition
teleSUR English recently had the curtesy to run a hatchet job on me built around this post, from December 2013, which they didn’t have the actual courage to...
"Beisbol" Blues
After 15 years of having a recruitment center in the country, the Seattle Mariners are packing their bags and leaving town for the Dominican Republic. It’s the latest...
Newsprint-geddon is alive and kicking (Updated)
Valencia’s newspaper El Carabobeño could be the newest victim of what I call as”Newsprint-geddon”, the ongoing (and quite deliberate) shortage of newsprint for publishing. The paper informed their...
#TropaTelesur under siege
Imagine what would happen to your business if you discriminated among your employees based on nationality alone, and they knew about it. What would your workers do if they found out...
Plug of the week: Diplomado en Periodismo para la Fuente Económica
(Sorry, this one is in Spanish) Junto con la inseguridad, la economía pasó a ser la principal preocupación de los venezolanos, llevándolos a querer estar cada vez más...
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