Minister of the People's Power for Trash Talking About Housing
Today, housing minister Ricardo Molina called together a bunch of media for a ceremony in Táchira to deliver 48 new homes. Forty eight! Except, as Julio Borges keeps...
Politics
Winning, yet losing
I’m not feeling too optimistic about the whole Leopoldo López saga. Last week, the Interamerican Court for Human Rights decided that López had been unfairly barred from running...
Machado stirs up the right-winger in me
Maria Corina Machado gave a really good speech yesterday on the issue of crime. I mouth off in the Spanish site.
¡Que Ovarbaridad!
What do you call a firm that had existed for less than three months when it landed a $252 million contract to sell a PDVSA-subsidiary (Bariven) equipment that...
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Just when you thought there weren’t any rhetorical depths left for chavismo to plumb, we get this: “Miranda deserves a governor with a wife and daughter.” -Elías Jaua...
Electric Kool Aid Acid Guiso
You remember Chávez’s Electrical Emergency Decree, right? Signed during the blackout-prone days of early 2010, it allowed state agencies to circumvent normal public sector procurement processes to obtain...
Your move, Luisa Estella
The Interamerican Court on Human Rights has just announced that Leopoldo López should be allowed to run for President. Supposedly, these rulings are binding in Venezuela. No idea...
主權? Try 賣淫
From an AVN story about a meeting Hugo Chávez held yesterday with the Chinese: “Chávez … explained that Chinese banks give out loans to Venezuela and, in exchange,...
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...
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...
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