File under "sign of the apocalypse #21,382,864"
Why do I have this image in my head of Chávez playing a fiddle somewhere?
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Tchee-GWEE-reh Pa' Todo El Mundo
Boy, I can’t wait to see the Capybara’s reaction to this.
The Chavington Post
Dear lord almight. Painter, tank commander, baseball player, military ethicist, variety show host, coup plotter, poet and now…blogger! It had to come to this. It was just bound to. Welcome,...
One Political Prisoner's Ordeal
What the government is doing to Judge María Lourdes Afiuni staggers the mind. No other single story captures Venezuela’s slide to dictatorship quite like her’s. Jailed summarily simply for...
Venezuela: Dictatorial PowerSlide in Progress
Tomorrow, March 18th, I’ll be participating in the BBC’s SuperPower Nation conference, live online, all day long. It’ll be really cool: there will be bloggers from all over the world...
Spain has "full confidence" that Venezuela will collaborate in the fight against the terrorists on its payroll
Just a couple of days after Spanish newspaper ABC noted that a second high profile ETA sympathizer, José Antonio Egido Sigüenza, is also on the Venezuelan government’s payroll,...
It's all your fault
This last weekend was the bloodiest of the year in Caracas’ undeclared civil war: 67 people were murdered between Friday and Sunday. The AFP account – which, by...
Overcoming Incongruence
For much of the last eleven years, one of the hardest-to-miss themes in the Chávez era has been the incongruence between the residual bits of liberal democracy in...
Castrating the body politic
Think they could never censor the Internet? Think again. Think they won’t take away all the powers of the legislature if they happen to lose next September? Think...
Mordazas24
It’s been barely two days since Chávez’s launched on that rant about "regulating" internet forums the same way he "regulates" dissident radio stations and TV channels (i.e., with...
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