New Blood: Raul Aular
A big focus over the coming months will be broadening out the writing stable beyond just Juan and I by reaching out to new talent. We’re looking for...
Ideal for Rounding Up Dissidents
You can’t make this stuff up. Above is ملعب هوجو تشافيز – Hugo Chávez Stadium to you and me – in Benina, Libya.
Chávez starts to pay the price for that Bolivar sword replica UPDATED
Even longstanding Chávez ball-coddler Nikolas Kozloff is appalled by his chumminess with Ghaddafi… Update: Now long time friend-of-the-house Al Giordano piles on – taking it out, bizarrely, on...
Ten black boxes
Over in CrónicasdeCaracas.net, a frustrated rant on the sheer impossibility of figuring out how much the government spends.
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
Word of the Day: Agnotology
Definition: “the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt.” According to John Quiggin, an agnotological belief acts as a political shibboleth, “that is, an affirmation that marks the speaker...
In a perfect world
A Venezuelan newspaper would find a dogged, talented journalist and give him/her a research budget, six months and enough exposure to blow the top right off of a story...
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