Piñata Alert
So, there will be a three-month lame-duck period between the October 7th, 2012 presidential election and the next innauguration on January 10th, 2013. What could possibly go wrong?...
Life
It's a kind of magic...
This one is straight from the por-eso-es-que-estamos-como-estamos file: the money the government spends building schools ends up funding…Santería shrines.
Wait...what?!
This note, which turned up on Caracas Chronicles’ Facebook page, may be the weirdest thing I’ve seen all week. Reader’s Digest We are researching a piece for Reader’s...
Eva Golinger makin' things up = dog bites man
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
Somebody's watching ... and recording
My new favorite blog is Monitoreo Ciudadano. The decent folks there are putting up a nice little stock of videos, documenting the use of government media – from...
Procolonial Chronicles
The “procolonial forces.” That’s how Venezuela’s state news agency, AVN, now describes the Libyan rebels. Believe it! Ok, I admit it: I get this weird, dirty pleasure reading the...
Live-by-the-sword Chronicles
The Venezuelan Embassy Ambassador’s Residence in Tripoli is being ransacked and looted. Or, as Hugo Chávez would put it, it’s in the way of a “popular rebellion,” a “spark”...
Sincerest Form of Flattery Chronicles
Chigüi, pana, ¿y mi hat-tip?!
Never! Never ever! Never in a million years! Never, you hear?!...NEVER! Ok, just this once.
Newsflash: Hugo Chávez vows never to recognize any government in Honduras Libya other than Zelaya’s Gaddafi’s. Oh…right… The pathos, the isolation, the sheer ranting lunacy is really reaching...
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