Hang Jim Wyss, to scare the others
In Voltaire’s Candide, the character of Pangloss is hanged as a warning to others. I thought about this when reading the Miami Herald’s Jim Wyss tell, in his...
Life
Soon To Be A Historical Keepsake of the Pre-Civil War Era, cont.
And in Valencia things got just plain old MadMax today…
The Communicational Hegemony Cookbook
Step 1. Invite journalists to your military base to cover your revolutionary leg-of-pork giveaway. Step 2. Let your giveaway turn into a complete fiasco, with skirmishes breaking out...
All about our current healthcare crisis in one single article
The ongoing crisis of our health system is nothing new, but things are now taking one strong turn for the worse. This great report by the AP’s regional...
A new kind of draft
Recluta… there’s a word that brings memories. (In most, if not all cases, not happy ones). For a country that’s gone over 150 years without a proper shootin’...
We got your dystopia right here, man
A smart riposte to Caracas Te Quiero.
The @naky chronicles
One of the great things about new media is discovering new voices, people who wouldn’t get heard if the public sphere was still in the hands of the...
2001: A Pigs('-Legs)-in-Space Odyssey
It’s been a tough old month for Caracas tabloid 2001, as they face two different forms of repression. Last Friday, three journalists went down to Fuerte Tiuna to cover...
Another local paper bites the dust
Barinas newspaper De Frente is the latest casualty of the lack of newsprint which is affecting many regional papers in Venezuela. As an extra wrinkle, they aren’t even...
A territorial mess, cont.
Venezuela is divided into states. States are divided into municipalities. Each municipality has one mayor, and each state has one governor.That is what the Constitution says. Simple, right?...
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