Losing Parapara
Lost in the news of the torrential rains soaking our country, some Venezuelans went to the polls yesterday in a Special Election to elect two of the country’s...
The one unambiguously good thing the gringos are doing in Venezuela
Looking through the Wikileaks cables, it strikes me that there is one unambiguously good thing the U.S. is doing in Venezuela: helping Cuban health professionals escape from the...
It works like the lottery, basically
If people really understood how vanishingly, impossibly small their chances of winning the lottery are, nobody would play. But they do: year after year, decade after decade, generation...
Wikileaks: Caracas Chronicles Full of Expletive (Updated)
Great fun from the Wikileaks docu-dump: ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: A plain-spoken nuclear physicist told Econoff [the U.S. consulate's Economics Office] that those spreading rumors that Venezuela is helping...
From "damn nuisance" to something more
After the wettest November on record, Venezuela is experiencing serious flooding all through the long Caribbean coast. Granted, bits of the country flood every time it rains hard...
Assange channels Marialejandra López
El País has published its report on the latest batch of Wikileaks, a significant bunch dealing with Venezuela. From a cursory read of the contents of the cables,...
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