When a bloody nose is a sign of progress
As everyone knows by now, a meeting of the Opposition’s "Unity Roundtable" in Carabobo state ended in blows last week as various local factions’ frustration over negotiations ahead of...
Life
Comments board goes insane in five... four... three...
So, guess who puts food on the Palin family table? If you’re Venezuelan, you do! http://www.youtube.com/v/N2XzGTeOI0g&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 How does that work out? As with Kevin Tocineta, there are six...
The FARC-ETA Farcette for Beginners
Why can’t Spain anger Hugo Chávez, even if he’s aiding Basque terrorists? My TNR article this week tries to make sense of the little farce for the uninitiated....
Venezuela through Fresh Eyes
If you read Spanish and have an hour or so to spare, you really should check out this rivetting first-person account of life as a dignitary invited to...
Journalistic Technique 101: The Mosquita Muerta Cold Call
So how can we tell for sure that Arturo Cubillas Fontán is still working at the National Lands Institute’s Security Department? Easy. Just pick up a phone, call...
Mental Health Break: A Day in the Life of Caracas
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8560269&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Epilogo 2009 from Diego Di Marcantonio on Vimeo. It pays to watch this all the way through to the end…
These guys aren't even tryin' anymore...
You could waste a lot of valuable time picking through the smouldering piles of intellectual rubble that get passed off as "news, views and analysis" on any given...
Demagoguing the FARC-ETA Case
Over the last few days, Spanish conservatives have been desperately trying to one-up each other’s outrage-o-meter readings over Venezuela’s alleged role in supporting FARC’s collaboration with ETA. It’s...
The view from your drought: Salto Angel, Venezuela
Angel Falls, Venezuela. The world’s tallest waterfall, or what’s left of it. Pass the Zoloft.
Becoming a medium for Chavez's tsunami of bullshit
I spent an intense hour and a half yesterday Livetweeting Chávez’s Cadena. I highly recommend it as a hobby. Livetweeting forces you to pay close attention to the...
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