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Is it just me, or are Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s columns in El Nacional quickly establishing themselves as the most lucid take on the through-the-looking-glass world of post-chavismo? Personally,...
Politics
How can you tell apart a cops' funeral cortege from a motorizado funeral cortege?
Turns out, in Monagas, you can’t… Maturín.- Una situación de completa anarquía se vive desde tempranas horas de la mañana de este jueves, cuando funcionarios de la Policía de...
Arreaza in Outright Self-Parody Mode
Today, there are 1 trillion bolivars in circulation in Venezuela. A year ago, there were Bs.583 billion. That, right there, is pretty much all you need to know to...
Halloween Special, cont.
Doubling down… And…am I the only one annoyed that these people clearly don’t know what the word ‘trilogy’ means? [Hat tip: Emi.]
Halloween Special
Guess who’s haunting the Caracas Metro?
Mutatis Mutandis
Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the...
A territorial mess, cont.
Venezuela is divided into states. States are divided into municipalities. Each municipality has one mayor, and each state has one governor.That is what the Constitution says. Simple, right?...
Your tax bolívars at work
Caracas woke up with these posters all over town. The ID number on the posters corresponds to “Fundación Cultural 23 de Enero Simón Bolívar.” Yes, it’s a cultural...
Viral Now
How To get into the Metro – The Venezuelan Way This is the second greatest video from the Valles del Tuy commuter train – after the greatest cadena...
Sabotage-o-meter
Nicolás Maduro keeps talking about an alleged “economic sabotage” against the country. Government ministers toe the line and blame the “S” word for almost everything (from the electric...
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