Foreign chavista apologists: temblad!
In the text of the new, about-to-be-approved Law on International Cooperation (aka the NGO Muzzle Law), there is this little doozy: “Representatives of NGOs with political objectives, of...
Economic brutality
Hugo Chávez announced yesterday that he was raising taxes … in the middle of a recession. In announcing a rise in the Value-Added Tax, which hits consumers directly,...
The vanishing mirage
A few years ago, chavista apologists boasted about Venezuela’s vertiginous growth rates, bragging them about as Exhibit #1 when vouching for the success of chavenomics. Those days are...
Enabling Law: Ud. lo vio por Caracas Chronicles
Chavez just announced it. Lame-duck shmame-duck. An Enabling Law (Ley Habilitante, in Spanish) would give Chávez special powers to rule by decree for a fixed period of time, effectively...
Jumping the Visa queue by telling Valle Arriba how they juke the oil export stats
Ah, Wikileaks, the gift that keeps on giving…
On the Political Implications of the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chavismo’s long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on...
ENI color you want, so long as it's green
Finally, some truly juicy bits about Venezuela are coming out of the Wikileaks cables. What’s coming out, though, is not exactly what Eva Golinger fantasized about when she...
Musical chairs
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez appointed socialist hyena Andrés Izarra as Minister of Information. He replaces Mauricio Rodríguez, appointed Minister in June. He replaced VTV opinionator Tania Díaz, who had been...
Tomorrow, Today!
My friends, I have seen the future. Not in a Crystal Ball, mind you…but in an Ivory one.
Polar Squeeze
Control enough of its supply chain and expropriating Polar becomes almost superfluous.
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