Police deployment chronicles
The Bolivarian National Police is slowly expanding its operations around the country. This week, 880 agents of the PNB will start patrolling in Carabobo State, with special attention...
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If only we could be as efficient as the soviets...
The new “efficiency” drive recently announced by the comandante presidente was looking for a symbol to recognize and represent the excellence that the Chavernment wants its workers to...
Why Izarra got sacked
With this tweet, Andrés Izarra confirmed the end of his tenure as Comunications and Information Minister (MinCI), a short time after the comandante presidente made the change public...
Bolivarian Awards 2012: The big winners
Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez joins us for a guest post today. Take it away, Daniel … “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not...
Lo bueno que tiene es lo malo que tiene
Clive Crook is right, “elected autocrat” really is a confusing category. But Crook does not go far enough. The issue isn’t that Chávez gets elected despite being an...
Petrochequera mata galán
Over on the IHT, I process my despecho and get down to brass tacks in my Monday morning quaterbacking. It wasn’t the REP. It wasn’t the lop-sided media access....
They have the majority, but we have the best writers
Here’s a terrific piece by Ana Teresa Torres, published in Prodavinci. It’s called “About sadness.” The money quote: Conozco y aprecio a venezolanos para quienes el resultado de...
Reasons to Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
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Will the real Katy please stand up.
Hello everyone. Long time readers will remember that my husband, Juan Cristóbal Nagel – now one of the site’s co-editors – initially posted on this blog (and took...
Lara: Venezuela's Ohio?, ctd.
A reader with business experience writes me about why Lara State does really matter: “In 2003-04, I got involved in a new venture: producing and selling a botteled...
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