Maduro hearts Kim
The U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity and to impose targeted sanctions on the...
Moneyball update: PSUV says no to "beisbol" loan
Notitarde’s Janet Yucra is reporting that the PSUV has pulled the plug on the proposed loan for the Venezuelan Profesional Baseball League (LVBP), which I wrote about this week...
El Picure strikes again
Earlier this week there was a shootout between two rival criminal bands in a farm located near Altagracia de Orituco (in central Guárico State), leaving eleven people dead....
A low point for our football
Last Sunday was a dark day for Venezuelan football: there were violent clashes between the fans of Portuguesa F.C. and C.D. Lara inside and outside the José Antonio Páez...
Money for baseball (and trips for free)
Before the baseball season began back in October, the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) publicly thanked government currency distributor CENCOEX for handling their requests right on schedule. But now...
Cracking down on street vendors
The central government has launched a new front in the economic war: going after street vendors (buhoneros) who sell groceries and other regulated products, as well as those who...
Chavismo: Putting the "eek" in "eco-socialism"
Several Twitter users (including world-class freediver Carlos Coste) published multiple photographs of what looks to be a serious oil spill in the beach near the Amuay Oil Refinery...
Disarmament and Its Discontents
Take a look to this report from Brazil’s newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo: “The family nanny for Elías Jaua (currently the Venezuelan Communes Minister) was detained in the early...
Breaking: Interior Minister Rodriguez Torres got sacked
Nicolas Maduro has just announced the exit of the Interior, Justice and Peace Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres and asked him to take a break. Defense Minister Cármen Meléndez...
What Newsprint-geddon hath wrougth: The hegemony's newsprint monopoly
On October 1st, Caracas newspaper Tal Cual announced in an editorial that the paper would run out of newsprint before the end of this month. As the deadline...
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