The New Normal
You know the country’s well and truly down the rabbithole when random illegal media outlet shutdowns don’t even register as a blip on N24! Dígalo ahí, RSF: Carabobo...
Life
Worst. Tourism brochure. Ever!
Come to beautiful Venezuela, where you can enjoy… Unlawful killings, including summary executions of criminal suspects Widespread criminal kidnappings for ransom Prison violence and harsh prison conditions Inadequate...
Now I've Seen Everything
Right wing extremist, and very-very-good-novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa would never vote for Keiko Fujimori…but he’d consider voting for Humala! #31…I’m to the right of that guy??!??
Barreto reappears...!
… and from the looks of him, that’s not a good thing. Dude, what’s with the get-up? Oh, and you should have listened to us, we warned you...
The $9 billion question
So, if we’re now using technology to make sure gasoline isn’t sold across the border … why can’t we use it to make sure we only subsidize gas...
Huh?
We usually send our fellow blogger Setty heaps of praise, most of it deserved. But this one left me scratching my head. About the elections in Peru, Setty...
"When two leaders fight, it's their peoples who suffer in the end..."
Juan Manuel Santos says he knows for a fact there are no more FARC camps in Venezuela. Think about it – that’s huge! Santos continues to far exceed...
Mental health break
In Spanish, but perfectly understandable to a non-native speaker. PS.- This is how Chávez toys with us … all the time. #24 … and I’m starting with the...
Amperes, not empires
In an interesting op-ed published in El Universal (now there’s something I don’t write every day), Julio Borges keeps the focus on bread-and-butter issues. If there is one...
Another one bites the dust
Chalk this up to another instance of the US justice system doing what the Venezuelan “justice” “system” refuses to do. Government regulator Rafael Ramos de la Rosa, who...
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