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The Pyongyang Moment is Nigh

I’ve long had this hunch – just a hunch, really – that sooner or later, in a fit of ideological fervor, Hugo Chávez is bound to align Venezuela...

tantraweb June 25, 2010

Life

FP suggests new friends for Chávez

Hugo Chávez has been included in Foreign Policy’s list of the world’s worst dictators. For any reasonable Venezuelan, this is just another embarrassment. For Chávez, it reads like...

tantraweb June 23, 2010

Life

The capital of Cumaná is Petare

BBC News has a video on the efforts to reduce crime in Petare. Reporter Will Grant toured with the Sucre police, and the piece is boiler-plate, a missed...

tantraweb June 23, 2010

Life

Aggravation Without an Upside

It takes a moment to digest the chart Setty puts up in his latest post. Overall, the Electricity Rationing measures the government imposed in the first half of the...

tantraweb June 22, 2010

Life

Reflections on an interview I only sort of half watched

Oh, admit it: you didn’t watch the whole thing either. Who would!? Chavez’s blood pressure raising hour-long tussle with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur never risked showing us anything we...

tantraweb June 17, 2010

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Sometimes a bankrupt bank is only a bankrupt bank

By now you’ve heard the news: that bank that the half owner of Globovision runs got taken over. The bank is Banco Federal, the guy is Nelson Mezerhane and, for once,...

tantraweb June 14, 2010

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Once every four years

It always goes like this. Every four years. I think I’m too old for it. I tell myself it’s all just a bunch of marketing and hype, anyway....

tantraweb June 11, 2010

Life

Going on the record (UPDATED AGAIN)

With just under 24 hours to go, I have one word to say to you all: Serbia.. Slovenia. Slovakia. Remember where you heard it first.

tantraweb June 10, 2010

Life

Lights on...! (por ahora)

Hugo Chávez just announced the suspension of enforced blackouts across the country. The rationing scheme was triggered by Venezuela’s electricity crisis. The suspension coincides with an increase in...

tantraweb June 10, 2010

Life

Blog Hiatus

Drogba, Mikel, Pirlo, Ballack and now…Quico. (Fell off my damn bike and broke my arm…and JC is on vacation! No more blogging until further notice.)

tantraweb June 9, 2010

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