¿Te acuerdas, Quico?
El 10 de enero del año pasado, en Venezuela ocurrió una infamia. Un Presidente electo gravemente enfermo no pudo asistir a su toma de posesión, y contra toda...
Life
El Gordo Bayón
Yorman Márquez, aka El Gordo Bayón, was gunned down a few days ago. His story is like a micro-cosm of chavista Venezuela – union leader, alleged murderer, ex-con,...
Let's wiki the Labor Law
“It used to be simple,” my friend Armando is telling me. “I used to be able to play around with the shifts depending on the changes in demand....
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
Few things surprise me about Venezuela anymore. This is one of those things. As it turns out, we not only import gasoline, we also import homeless families. I...
The Slow Agony of Grupo Últimas Noticias
Two more high-profile journalists have been fired from what remains the largest newspaper group in Venezuela, Grupo Últimas Noticias (GÚN) were fired this Monday: Erys Alvarado, the newsroom’s director, and Jovan...
Local girl does good
Garbiñe Muguruza is a young Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player that has been tagged as a future top prospect for a few years now. Born in Caracas to a Venezuelan mother...
Moto-Taxis and their Discontents
Road rage between motorcycles, pedestrians, and vehicles is an everyday sight in Caracas. The asphalt is a hard-fought battle ground. In recent times, radicalism and mediocre policy-making have exacerbated...
The thin and the thick of it
There are many things that are fat in Venezuela. The people are fat, mostly as a result of a terrible diet. And Diosdado Cabello’s wallet is fat. But there are...
Trolling the World Cup, TVes Style
Still haven't caught the fútbol bug? Here is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's answer to all those schnazzy capitalist World Cup promos, courtesy of the genius and overfunded producers over at Televisión Venezolana Social (TVes), who, by the way, are celebrating today seven years since RCTV went off the air.
Colombia's Shockingly (to a Venezuelan) Mundane Election System
Less than an hour after the closing of the polling stations, we learned that Oscar Ivan Zuluaga –Uribe’s boy- pushed President Santos to a presidential runoff vote, actually...
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