October surprise
Venezuela’s electoral council has announced that next year’s Presidential elections have been moved up about two months. Instead of the traditional December date, the elections next year will...
Strong rumblings from the rumor mill
Sorry for not posting for a while, but I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with life stuff. I guess we can start a thread discussing the latest from the rumor...
It's a kind of magic...
This one is straight from the por-eso-es-que-estamos-como-estamos file: the money the government spends building schools ends up funding…Santería shrines.
Wait...what?!
This note, which turned up on Caracas Chronicles’ Facebook page, may be the weirdest thing I’ve seen all week. Reader’s Digest We are researching a piece for Reader’s...
Et tu...Pablo?!!
Sorry for the lull in posting. Life happens, this week in the form of moving house: always a harrowing ordeal. (Juan, on his end, had some lame excuse...
Why Fonden accounting is never going to add up...
Deep in his comment section, the Satanic Bowel Movement turns up the smoking gun in the case for thinking Fonden’s books will never ever make sense to an...
Good News, Everyone!
Venezuela hosts one of the world’s largest gold mines, and we know it’s going to be developed now because the concession is in the capable hands of: Dot...
Jesse Goes Deep
Don’t miss this engaging, Deep-Think piece in Rebelión by Jesse Chacón (or rather, I suspect, by the Spanish grad student who ghost-writes his columns). In rare, intello form,...
Eva Golinger makin' things up = dog bites man
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
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