Man, they don’t make ’em like Alma Guillermoprieto anymore… While his political base crumbles, Maduro inaugurates theaters, attends circus performances, wears olive-green military-style shirts with ever-broader epaulets even...
A reporter from El Nacional newspaper took a picture of this bust of the late comandante supremo outside of a shopping mall of the Military Social Prevision Institute...
The government has raised the official subsidy paid to domestic rice producers – from 2,50 Bolivars per Kilo to 3,60 Bs. In spite of this, our producers shouldn’t feel...
Tal día como hoy, 46 years ago, Venezuelan territory was actually physically invaded by a foreign power for the first time since independence in the last 100 years. Prohibido...
That’s the message from Tom O’Donnell, quoting various sources, including Saudi oil minister al-Naimi. The gist: with increased oil production all over the world, with North Dakota becoming...
Electricity Minister Jesse Chacón said today that the government would raise electricity rates so that people who use too much electricity begin to pay more. This is a terrible...
After a month of pot-banging and PR snafus, Nicolás Maduro is not taking any more chances. So when he decided to meet with community leaders from Baruta and...
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez: Nicolás Maduro is many things to many people: a tyrant, a hero, a president, a fake president, an awkward public speaker, and...
Following the sale of Globovision, the last remaining critical TV broadcaster in Venezuela, to (reputedly) regime-connected investors, there was widespread fear in the opposition that a new and...
New Electricity Minister Jesse Chacón has tried to differentiate himself from his predecessors during his first days at the job. He even pledged to quit if his new...
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