The throwback
(A gift under the tree for our readers: this is an exclusive guest post by Alejandro Tarre, a talented, Caracas-based writer and blogger. Do check out his blog,...
Life
Today's Minsk is tomorrow's Caracas
Chavez ally Aleksandr Lukashenko stole the Belarus election today. At least that’s the opinion of thousands of protesters who flooded the streets of Minsk. Euronews has the roundup....
Weeding
Both Quico and I have had a busy week, hence the light posting, but here is one news item I did want to comment on. As I was...
The Final Word (por ahora) On Wikileaks and Chávez
Alejandro Tarre has the most lucid piece yet on Wikileaks and Chávez. It’s in Spanish. You should read it.
Foreign chavista apologists: temblad!
In the text of the new, about-to-be-approved Law on International Cooperation (aka the NGO Muzzle Law), there is this little doozy: “Representatives of NGOs with political objectives, of...
Jumping the Visa queue by telling Valle Arriba how they juke the oil export stats
Ah, Wikileaks, the gift that keeps on giving…
On the Political Implications of the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chavismo’s long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on...
ENI color you want, so long as it's green
Finally, some truly juicy bits about Venezuela are coming out of the Wikileaks cables. What’s coming out, though, is not exactly what Eva Golinger fantasized about when she...
Musical chairs
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez appointed socialist hyena Andrés Izarra as Minister of Information. He replaces Mauricio Rodríguez, appointed Minister in June. He replaced VTV opinionator Tania Díaz, who had been...
Tomorrow, Today!
My friends, I have seen the future. Not in a Crystal Ball, mind you…but in an Ivory one.
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