The Human Face of the Rotten Lettuce Scam
Over on Bloomberg, Joshua Goodman and Charlie Devereux put a human face on the sprawling Lechuga Verde fraud: One teacher said he needed to shuttle out of the country...
What the world needs now...
A Chavista youth group in San Francisco (South of Maracaibo) is offering to tattoo the signature of the comandante supremo for free. The group known as FIJU has informed...
You canNOT be serious!
Over on ForeignPolicy’s Transitions blog, Juan rues the state of the quickie campaign: The spectacle continues. Maduro announced that Hugo Chávez would be embalmed, only to backtrack a few days...
Piñata Ethics (Updated)
So I got myself in a bit of trouble yesterday. My wife, who is very not-Venezuelan read Emiliana’s story about the Semana Santa operativos with evident alarm. But worse was to come when she...
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