Riding coattails onto aircraft carriers...
Aircraft carriers are strategically crucial but massively expensive to build, so it’s not surprising of the ten nations that have real aircraft carriers, eight possess only one. In...
Assad and Maduro, still BFFs
In its last meeting, the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend the probe of the ongoing Syrian civil war until next year. The resolution was approved by...
Three Weeks Out: The Supposedly-(but-not-really)-Pre-Campaign Round Up
Let’s recap of the first seven days of non-campaign campaigning, or in criollo doublespeak: pre-campaña. Technically, you see, the official campaign only starts on April 1st and lasts a...
My so-called polity
I guess we can add this to the list of impossible things we’ll have to explain to our grandchildren somehow one day… Faced with the very real possibility...
Tío Conejo Chronicles: are Venezuelans really hostile to Foreigners?
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez Last week, the World Economic Forum released its “Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report” for 2013. The study rated 140 countries on various...
Jail House Night-Club
Remember that nightclub in Tocorón Prison from last year? Well, it now has serious competition from a brand new place inside El Rodeo I in Guatire, just outside Caracas....
"Juan Cristobal is exactly right." -Diosdado Cabello
National Assembly chairman Diosdado Cabello’s bizarre rant yesterday baffled and amazed me. Diosdado expressly cedes Juan’s point – yup, we’re crazy – in language poised exquisitely between Trash Talk and...
Vote for me. The other guys are crazy.
I have to admit, I’m more than a little turned off by the current Presidential campaign. Part of my frustrechera lies with the fact that, while Henrique Capriles...
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