Foiled magnicidio # 3,012,623
The comandante presidente announced to the press before a campaign rally in Catia La Mar that authorities detained a man in the border with Colombia, which he described...
Politics
Government: Nobody has died in Venezuela for any reason since 2003
A reader: I’m continually astonished that no one ever seems to challenge the government claim, most recently repeated by Yadira Cordova just the other day, that Barrio Adentro...
Handles like oil, priced like coal
A reader notes that another point in favor of Orimulsion is that it doesn’t count towards OPEC production quotas. This New York Times article gives you a feel...
Caracazo, cont.
Bless your heart, YouTube. Now we can all see RCTV’s historic newscast from February 27th, 1989: The bit of this video that fascinates me starts at 1:50, when...
I can't win, can I?
A reader: This is not a comment about comments. This is a comment on “A moratorium on comments-about-comments”. Since I am subject to the moratorium to comments about...
SIDOR goes into collision course
After Ferrominera’s internal election, the situation inside Guayana’s empresas básicas is getting more intense by the day. Steel-maker SIDOR is undergoing big change. Rafael Gil Barrios, current president of the...
Bolivarian Navy's mysterious accident
The Brazilian press is reporting that this Venezuelan Navy ship ran aground near the port of Fortaleza last Friday. The PC-22 patrol vessel “Warao” was about to take part in joint...
It's hard out here for a rapidito...
In cities like Barquisimeto, public transport means more than just buses. Some routes are covered by what’s known here as carritos por puesto or rapiditos: passenger cars that...
If only we had first world institutions, like Kenya...
What does it take to get a proper police investigation into Bolivarian drug trafficking? Apparently, a bit of a detour through East Africa, that’s what. The entire Olga...
Pollster / advisor
Alejandro Tarre, echoing Tal Cual and Reporte Confidencial, has posted a great find: slides that suggest Hinterlaces’s Oscar Schemel is working for the government. If so, then more power...
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