Eulogia's Struggle
Over in Centro Gumilla’s SIC, Sebastián de la Nuez is on a tear in this long-form piece on the day-to-day life of one barrio family, where Eulogia, on her...
The fictional dollar gets a little bit less fictional
And so it’s official: the bolivar has been devalued to Bs.6.30:$1, with the never-well-pondered SITME mechanism abolished. On paper, a 46.5% 31.7%* devaluation should be huge news. The reality is...
My kingdom for a baseball cap
The Chavernment sometimes uses the mandatory simulcasts on all TV and Radio stations (known as cadenas) to promote its image and political agenda through elaborate infomercials, but last night...
Panic is thine enemy
Recent shenanigans at the National Assembly have created a sense of panic in certain opposition circles. To recap: following the defection (which sounds curiously like defecation) of two...
Paquetapocalypse Later
This Bloomberg piece describing changes in chavista financial management sort of raises more questions than answers, if you ask me. According to Joshua Goodman and Charlie Devereux, this… Last...
What's going on at CICPC town?
Almost eight months after a series of substancial reforms were announced in Venezuela’s criminal investigations police (CICPC, formally the PTJ), a brief report by the Comptroller General’s Office does...
Yesterday on NPR: Me and Kimi vs. Every Leftie in the Bay Area
So I was on a Bay area NPR show up against a couple of random chavistas yesterday: you can listen to the recording here. Listen closely at 4:44 to...
The PGV is just one small glimpse of hell
The Guardian’s Virginia Lopez offers a inside look into the General Penitentiary of Venezuela (the PGV), located in Guárico State. While she’s not the first journalist to go...
A bizarre Goebbelsian spectacle
I don’t have a lot to say about yesterday’s bizarre Goebbelsian spectacle with Diosdado Cabello (of all friggin’ people) accusing Primero Justicia of widespread corruption except that it confirms...
Gran Mision Mad Rush to Catch Up After Years of Broken Promises
Even after the home-buidling boom of the year ahead of the 2012 presidential vote, chavismo still hasn’t caught up with the puntofijo years’ pace… [Hat tip: Transparencia Venezuela.]
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