Malaria comes back to the future
As the H1N1 outbreak which started last month is still affecting the country, a very different health concern is now among us. The Venezuelan Society of Infectology is denouncing...
Observers get a taste of chavismo
The international observers from Spain’s Instituto de Altos Estudios Europeos just came out with a damning report regarding the Venezuelan election. Basically, they think there are numerous elements...
Even the rectal sovereignty is imported...
To stop the “imperialist plan” to deprive us from toilet paper and making our lives (even more) miserable, the State has joined forces with a major corporation del...
Omaigá Chronicles
Entiéndelo: Venezuela te está trolleando… What’s chilling is that that wasn’t even the worst of yesterday’s session. WTF of the year goes to this monstruosity.
Capriles drops a "C" bomb
Henrique Capriles held a press conference yesterday, which he duly posted on his new Internet TV Channel (is there such a thing?) capriles.tv. In it, he let slip...
Motorizado nation
With the transformation of the Venezuelan landscape in recent decades, the figure of the motorcyclist (motorizado) has become almost omnipresent not only in the largest cities, but also...
Caracas-one-can-only-dream-of Chronicles
As long-time readers know, traffic in Caracas is one of our favorite topics. This video I caught today reminds me that we haven’t written about it in a...
S&P to Maduro: down you go
Standard & Poor’s downgraded Venezuela’s debt from junk to useless junk. Why should you care? Because the lower our debt rating, the higher the interest rates we have...
Tremendo rollo
My take on the toilet paper crisis in a post that proved very difficult to write, over at the Transitions blog. The value added: Venezuela actually can’t afford...
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