La hegemonía va por dentro
Almost a month ago, we had an unusual case of self-censorship inside the State Media System (SIBCI): the main TV channel VTV took off the air the late...
Politics
Why doesn't the opposition say more about Syria?
Nicolás Maduro is highly supportive of Syria’s dictatorial mass-murderer Bashar el Assad. He has sent subsidized diesel to Syria. At one point, there was even a nonstop Caracas-Damascus...
Magnicidio-o-meter
In case you missed it, the government announced earlier last week that they stopped another assassination plot against Nicolás Maduro, This one included two Colombian hitmen (now in custody)...
Globomyopia
Boris Muñoz is characteristically excellent in his treatment of the fall of Globovision to the Dark Side, in a post that covers all the story’s basics. And yet,...
What Quico should learn from David Cameron
I’ve been mulling Quico’s unusual screed from the other day, in which he harshly criticized Henrique Capriles and wondered out loud how long he was going to last...
Steel Crazy After All These Years
This must really be – and I know I seem to write this often, but bear with me – one of the weirdest things I’ve read about Venezuela in...
The phantom bike menace
We’ve been hearing as of late that SICAD dollar auctions were being used as stopgap measures to avoid scarcity for particularly sensitive items. For example, many SICAD dollars are...
Someone to watch over them
Reading this great post by Setty, it strikes me that there is real ingenuity and entrepreneurship in Venezuela. It’s too bad it’s often used for things such as...
E Gibberish Unum
Some days, this self-parody we have masquerading as a government is just too awesome for words…like when its “inspirational revolutionary murals” forget to replace the dummy text before...
Grabación de mi Blogotaller desde Bucaramanga
La primera sesión fue bien divertida. La grabación está aquí.
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