The Empire that didn't bark
You’d think the Chavernment would be thrilled over the invisibility of the gringos in the Paraguayan crisis, wouldn’t you? Alas no…
Life
Home, in five senses
1. “Señores pasajeros, bienvenidos al Aeropuerto Internacional La Chinita de Maracaibo.” I’m flying home for five days of family events. As I am leaving the plane, I brace myself...
Nada que ver, TVes...
TVes, the rushed replacement for RCTV after the latter was shut down, is finally admitting that things didn’t go according to plan (if there was any) in their...
The Ombudsman declares war... on exotic smoking pipes
People’s Ombudsman (and former PSUV deputy) Gabriela Ramírez has taken the initiative for once and stop her usual routine of blaming everything on the IV Republic. She asked...
Fox Suspends Henhouse from Mercosur Pending Democracy Restoration
Well, we know one place Nicolás Maduro will not be seeking asylum when chavismo loses power… Update: Is Maduro planning to make a statement about this?! Jesus!
CeaseFire: What it's going to take to break Venezuela's violence epidemic
Notice the metaphor in that title? “Violence epidemic”? We hear that kind of figurative language all the time. But what if violence really is an epidemic, or behaves...
Luisa Estela Morales, Space Cadet
The chairwoman of our Supreme Tribunal has found herself a new priority: Protecting Venezuelan outer space. “The ultraterrestrial space is one of the aspects established in our Constitution...
Mercosur Musical Chairs: Paraguay Out, Venezuela In (and it makes zero difference...)
Well, that didn’t take long: in the wake of Fernando Lugo’s quickie impeachment, Mercosur has suspended Paraguay’s membership in the trade block…which, magically, removed the one big obstacle...
Necronepotism Chronicles
I mean no disrespect at all to a brave and illustrious lady whose only misfortune was to beget an oligophrenic child but…is there any imaginable justification for a...
MAD-uro
This one is flying sort of under the radar screen: turns out that in the wake of Fernando Lugo’s impeachment in Paraguay, Venezuelan foreign minister (and aspiring dauphin)...
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