October surprise
Venezuela’s electoral council has announced that next year’s Presidential elections have been moved up about two months. Instead of the traditional December date, the elections next year will...
Politics
Strong rumblings from the rumor mill
Sorry for not posting for a while, but I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with life stuff. I guess we can start a thread discussing the latest from the rumor...
Et tu...Pablo?!!
Sorry for the lull in posting. Life happens, this week in the form of moving house: always a harrowing ordeal. (Juan, on his end, had some lame excuse...
Jesse Goes Deep
Don’t miss this engaging, Deep-Think piece in Rebelión by Jesse Chacón (or rather, I suspect, by the Spanish grad student who ghost-writes his columns). In rare, intello form,...
Eva Golinger makin' things up = dog bites man
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
Plastics
One of Venezuela’s many under-reported stories is the series of troubles in state-owned petrochemical giant PEQUIVEN. A loyal reader has been writing me for months, talking about the...
Does up mean down in legalese?
Once in a while, in the privacy of my own home, when no one is looking … I enjoy taking a peek at codes and statutes. I did...
Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
Stand By Your Man Chronicles
Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the...
Pablo Pérez has another bite at the launch cherry [Updated]
Better… UPDATE: Replaced clip with longer clip of the same speech. Snark after the jump…
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