"I knew they had guns, I didn't know they had Uzis..."
Prison reform is one of those inherently unpopular issues: anger over crime runs so deep that people, by and large, don’t want to hear about it. Which is...
Life
A well regulated militia being deeply threatening to the security of an unfree State...
Over in Spanish, I think the unthinkable about Chávez’s plan to press absolutely everybody into serve in his militia…
The Dickensian Aspect
Rory Carroll’s written a superlative article on Venezuela’s gangland violence for The Guardian, together with this arresting, difficult to watch short film and this photo gallery by Sean...
His tone-deafness is pathological
Hugo Chávez is traveling through South America, and as we have come to know, this is always good news for South America, and bad news for Venezuela. Case...
Carlos Escarrá: Human Rights Hero
You. Cannot. Make this shit up.
New media is all you need
Last Sunday, Setty informed us that an important pipeline carrying natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela was bombed, possibly by the FARC. He said: “It’s a big deal...
Reshuffling Your Peru Stereotypes
Over in Spanish, Raúl discusses the shifting meaning of Peruvianity.
Grimly Funny: Trip Advisor Caracas
So, a spell of weekend procrastination took me to Trip Advisor’s Caracas Hotel pages and… well, it really is an excellent way to waste half an hour. Behold...
Chávez and Gaddafi: The Axis of Unpaganda
After initially dithering, Hugo Chávez has now decisively taken sides in the rhetorical contest between Muamar Gaddafi and the Sane World. In the face of what is now...
Development is a state of mind
“In this country, GDP per capita could hit $20,000 per year, and people would still think like backwards Latin American assholes.” The words from my Chilean friend shocked...
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