Reductio ad obnoxium
Considering how grotesquely it has been abused, it’s easy enough to forget that, in its original guise, the concept of a broadcasting "Cadena" has a solid basis in...
Life
Seeking Solace in Understanding
At times, the sheer volume of lunacy oozing out of the Chávez Cult is almost more than I can bear. What can I say, it gets to me....
The dead gimmick
The election yesterday of Chile’s first right-wing President since 1990 is being hailed as a monumental shift. As former President Ricardo Lagos so eloquently put it, the governing...
Trusted Users This Week
So the final little bug in the comments software has now been worked out, and the Trusted User system is now running as it should. 37 registered users...
At 6:50 p.m. in Santiago, it's all over
Juan will get to the politics of all this later. For now, I’d just like to point this out: it’s not even 7 p.m. on election night in...
Which bolivars are you revaluing, exactly?!
So Chávez is now boasting that, contrary to all appearances, the "exchange rate adjustment" announced last week – you know, the one the imperialist media reported as a...
Hugo Chávez: “I am a Marxist”
http://www.youtube.com/v/WSwKdNZj_HM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=es_ES&feature=player_embedded&fs=1
Recadivi reductios itself ad absurdum
The sheer absurdity of having your primary needs determined by government fiat only really hits home when you get down to the details. For instance, chavismo has decided...
With Chávez micromanaging the electricity crisis, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, if he didn’t own the electricity crisis before, he does now. In a virtuoso display of government-via-La Hojilla last night, Hugo Chávez fired the Electricity Minister for...
Chávez hearts JPMorgan
If any final confirmation of the fundamental lack of seriousness of the chavista project were needed, VTV’s ecstatic reception of JPMorgan’s decision to upgrade Venezuela’s bond ratings surely...
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