Where have all the ATMs gone?
Having your highest denomination banknote be worth 10 cents is an insanity you grasp fully only when you realize it's renders ATMs pretty much useless.
SEBIN's War on Journalists' Sources
An active shooter at BCV, a mysterious video suicide-note, and SEBIN's rampage to try to figure out how it got out.
As its Narrative Crumbles, HegemonCorp Lashes Out Harder
It's getting harder to ignore the chasm between the quality of the media coverage of the crisis available to Venezuelans and to people everywhere else.
Dark is the new black
Living without electricity is not something this fútbol fan can get used to.
Telesur feels the sting (and the hegemony too)
Hegemony member Telesur has turned to a pledge drive to save them from "economic an political prosecution" (Chavista code for "going broke"). How's the State's media apparatus really doing?
Teleférico Shuffle
Barely reopened, Mérida's Mukumbarí cable car is already the object of some controversy. What fate awaits the newly recovered attraction?
PDVSA TV is live, but is anyone watching?
PDVSA has a TV Channel. Nobody's watching, but you're paying for it.
Hegemony is allergic to the Panama Papers
The Venezuelan government's reaction to the Panama Paper leaks is textbook authoritarian: Deny, persecute, fire some journalists, and blame it on the gringos.
Don't cry for me, Telesur
In a move that Maduro considers an affront to freedom of speech, Mauricio Macri drops Telesur from Argentina's domestic programming grid and spends public money on more worthwhile endeavors.
Newsprint-geddon reaches Valencia
Commmunicational hegenomy is real, and Valencia's El Carabobeño is the latest of many victims killed along the way.
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