Veniran-ian wasteland
JC’s recent post on VP Nicolas Maduro mentioned a news article from February regarding the situation of the joint Iranian-Venezuelan venture known as Venirauto. We’re now in December...
Article 233 Chronicles (Updated)
Here is what Article 233 of our Constitution says (in my rough English translation): “Article 233. The following are considered “absolute absences” of the President: his death, his...
Where's Waldo? (Hint: Not in Brazil)
The point of my “Where’s Waldo?” posts, which I started a few weeks back, was to keep track of Hugo Chávez’s increasingly rare public appearances. These posts, however,...
Lost in the Japanese countryside
Quico chronicles how the Japanese also sometimes feel like foreigners in their own land.
The great public safety flop
Six months have passed since the first announcement of the 19th safety plan of the Chavernment: Gran Misión “A Toda Vida Venezuela”. How it has fared so far?...
Zero hour for public transportation
Right now, public transportation buses in Barquisimeto (called the rutas) has the words hora 0 (zero hour) written in all their side windows. Those words indicate the possibility...
How do we go after Maduro?
With Hugo Chávez’s possible demise, Venezuelans could be facing a new Presidential election soon. This provides a unique opportunity for us, because the candidate we would likely face...
Ad War Update: MUD Round-Up
Instead of all running behind one consolidated platform as Chavismo does, the MUD candidates for governor are running locally-focused campaigns. Here’s some of them: Nueva Esparta Governor Morel...
16-D Races to Watch: Táchira
The Andean state of Táchira is considered to be the true bastion of anti-Chavismo, as the last presidential election can confirm. But this is one of the places...
Two timing S.O.B.
I can’t really explain why, but this is a topic I really only felt comfortable writing about in Spanish.
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