Party in the C.P.A. (Tocorón Prison)
Remember the tale of Tokio discotheque, located inside Tocorón Prison in Aragua? Well, the prison night-club has returned to the headlines: an 18-year old girl died of a...
Life
The mysterious 30%
The government plans on setting a maximum profit of 30% for everyone and everything in Venezuela. Funny enough, Maduro says he is doing so to preserve people’s economic...
The causes of crime in one graph
Take it away, World Justice Project.Should it surprise you that a country with no justice system, tons of weapons, and lots of drug smuggling … is a killing...
The maimed generation, by @ConIdayVuelta
I don’t really know what this blog post is about, but it has a little bit of everything: maimed pigeons, mold with an attitude, onion bits in the...
"El Impulso" will live on... for now
Hours before Nicolas Maduro announced the coming end of CADIVI, Barquisimeto’s main paper El Impulso made public that its request for currency to buy newsprint was finally approved,...
At long last socialism
After Nicolás Maduro’s State of the Union speech yesterday, one of the first things I did was try and fetch information on Venezuela’s new Finance Minister, Rodolfo Marco...
Graphs galore!
Twitter is just chock-full’a graphs today. Here’s one from Asdrúbal Oliveros on Venezuela’s car production. Vamos sobre ruedas!These two are from my partners-in-crime at ODH. The first is...
Chart of the week
The Economist, citing a UNDP report, on how rising crime rates have eaten into life expectancy. (HT: AP)
Deer in the headlights
Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres cuts a sad figure. A former military man with little knowledge of the civilian world, he is the public face of the government’s...
"El Impulso" is living on borrowed time
As reported months ago, Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso is facing a serious crisis. But even if it survived the earlier announced December deadline, the 110-year old paper...
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