The hell down the street
Last December, Prisons Minister Iris Varela announced the future closing of Sabaneta Prison in Maracaibo. A new jail (currently under construction) outside the city would be its replacement....
Spawn of Samán
Times are pretty tough for INDEPABIS, our (sort of) Consumer Protection Agency. With the current wave of shortages, they’re way, way overstretched. Now, a major corruption scandal involving a...
Graph of the day
Accompanying article here. The money quote It turns out that the profusion of oil wealth might actually make the roads more dangerous due to something political scientists call...
Dark Days for Panfleto Negro
Adriana Pérez Bonilla puts her finger on something raw and real and terrifying and simultaneously hilarious and not even a little bit funny in this Panfleto piece. It’s...
E-Ration Book is D.O.A.
Five days after its announcement, the Electronic Food Rationing program which was supposed to be implemented in Maracaibo on Monday is over even before it started. Today, Nicolás...
Three and a half years, some rapes, beatings and a forced abortion later...
…it looks like Judge María Lourdes Afiuni will be released later on this morning. Calling what happened to this woman a “detention” amounts to lexical complicity in an...
Shadow foreign policy
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I discuss the opposition’s new diplomatic offensive. The value added: These trips are part of a new phase for the Venezuelan opposition....
The silver lining
One of the few good things about the Bolivarian Involution is the fact that so many talented people (Jon Lee Anderson, Mario Vargas Llosa) take interest in Venezuela....
CNP: Chávez was no journalist
In a written statement, the National Guild of Journalists (known here as the Colegio Nacional de Periodistas or CNP) has strongly rejected yesterday’s decision of giving the 2013...
Six months on, do we miss him yet?
Back in December, just before news broke of El Comandante’s final, doomed Cuban surgery, I wrote this post, Well, guess what: none of the guys who’ll be fighting...
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