Incitatii Bolivariani
… or a modest proposal for Venezuela (A guest post by friend-of-the-blog Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez) The Emperor Gaius Caligula Caesar enjoys a hallowed a place within popular imagination. With the...
Life
Gabriel García Márquez has passed
Gabriel García Márquez, one of Latin America’s most widely read and beloved authors, has died today. El Gabo, as he was known to everyone, had strong links to Venezuela. Born...
XXIst Century Eco-socialism
A few days ago Miguel Rodríguez, the Environment Minister, leading a march toward Miraflores, said this: “Let’s put on a great national demonstration to show the indignation that is...
"¡Aquí fue!"
“I haven’t had tenderloin in two years.” I’m having lunch with Leticia and her husband Gonzalo in an upscale Santiago beef restaurant. I don’t know them very well, but...
I heart dialogue, says @yoanisanchez
Hit it, Yoani: “Last Thursday, spellbound Cuban TV viewers were able to watch a debate between a portion of the opposition in Venezuela and representatives of the government....
Eight things you and I can agree on
(With my apologies to those who think “dialogue” is a bad word) A few days have passed since the session where two different countries collided in Miraflores. Most...
The mysterious kidnapping of Nairobi Pinto
On April 6th, Venezuelan journalist Nairobi Pinto, who works as head of correspondents for the TV news channel Globovision, was kidnapped by masked individuals outside of her home in...
Perceptions of a crime wave
Venezuela’s Tourism Minister Andrés Izarra (infamous for having laughed about Venezuela’s high death rates on an international cable show in 2010), recently had this to say “[la inseguridad] es un problema real,...
First point of dialogue: what is the Constitution?
Chavistas insist on making life really difficult for those of us who want to support dialogue. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, said some seemingly innocuous things today that,...
Telenovela politics, by @SimpataXKingKon
Ibsen Martínez is a Venezuelan playwright and essayist who needs no introductions. His latest OpEd for the New York Times links the Spear murders, telenovela productions, Teodoro Petkoff, and scarcity...
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