Semana Santa, Politics, and a side of Pescao Frito
Semana Santa, along with Carnavales, Christmas vacation, Indigenous Resistance Day and any other holiday that does not fall on a Wednesday and can therefore become part of a...
Democracy is a tombola
On paper, all Venezuelan electoral campaigns are funded through private donations, as the Constitution bans the use of public money for political parties. But the law is one...
Book of the Week: Comandante
Rory Carroll’s Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week: an abridged version is being read on air in five instalments – 10 minutes each...
GoogleHangout with David Frum
A wide-ranging discussion with David Frum about Venezuela, the U.S., and what Venezuelan democracy activists can learn from the experience of Eastern Europe.
0% Vickrey
So after much confusion, I finally found a reasonable explanation of the SICAD’s Auction mechanism, courtesy of Bank of America. The long and the short of it is that...
Ad War Update: "pre-campaña" edition
As Emiliana already told us, we’re not officially in campaign yet (it starts on April 2nd) but still the electioneering is in full swing as part of the pre-campaña....
Sistema Complementario de Administración Monetaria - SCAM
Just when you thought the government’s arcane currency control system couldn’t get any weirder, along comes the Complementary System for Currency Administration (officially SICAD, though I still think...
It's a funny kind of anti-imperialism
Regardless of Nicolás Maduro’s rhetoric, the facts simply speak for themselves: We’re not just dependent on the U.S. as a market for the oil exports that pay for...
Jail House Night-Club, cont.
Looks like the El Rodeo I’s month-old nightclub won’t the only one up and running in the Venezuelan prison system. According to El Nacional’s crime reporter Thabata Molina,...
Delirium Tremens du Jour: 99 Red Balloons (Updated)
Click on this. Words just fail. [I can’t seem to embed just the relevant – by which I mean “staggeringly insane” – 40 seconds of the video.] Update:...
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