It's the easy way or the CONATEL way
Maracaibo-based TV channel Americana de Televisión (ATEL) is not your typical local TV station. Since its foundation ten years ago, ATEL can be only seen by cable and...
Parking in Caracas is getting harder
Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about the ordeal that drivers in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities face every day just to find an available parking...
Bandes's not-so-great overseas adventures
Back in 2006, the Venezuelan state’s development bank BANDES decided to expand its operations overseas by starting a commercial branch in Uruguay. Five years later, Bandes Uruguay announced...
Really, Auntie Beeb? UPDATED
UPDATE: Success! The story’s headline is suddenly altered. I usually go out of my way to resist the BBC-bashing instincts of many of my readers, mostly cuz I...
A great Boris Muñoz piece in The New Yorker
Boris Muñoz is one of a select few “must-read” Venezuelan writers. His latest for the New Yorker – talking about our black-and-blue National Assembly – is a doozy....
Diosdado IS chavismo
My take on the Mario Silva recording, over at the Transitions blog. The value added: The way that [the scandal] plays out will reflect who holds the key...
THIS is why chavismo can't work without Chávez
Ever since July 2011, when Chávez first announced his cancer diagnosis, it was clear to me that the revolution’s formal institutionality was so shallowly grounded and devoid of...
Reading the god-given tea leaves
Let’s recap Monday’s events: A conversation is leaked between Mario Silva and a Cuban intelligence operative, in which it is made clear that the Maduro faction in this...
Best Bit Translated
MARIO SILVA: On [April] 12th [Nicolas Maduro] tells me: Call me when you can, without saying it live on air. I call him. You know what he tells...
The best bit from the Mario Tape
It’s hard to pick just one, there’s so much crazy stuff in there. I’m tempted to go with “the opposition had a plan to commit election fraud on...
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