A matter of keeping your priorities straight
After tons of criticisms and complaints, CENCOEX – the replacement to currency distributor CADIVI – has finally received praise for doing things right on time. Was it for food supplies? For...
On the brink of Newsprint-geddon
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso informed its readers via an editorial last week that they would be forced to stop publishing, because their reserves of newsprint were simply insufficient...
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Wanna know what’s going on in Venezuela? You won’t have it easy. State media newscasts are just propaganda. Private ones kinda report the news, but focus more on...
Fighting the war on fiction
The shakeup that wasn’t and its future consequences has been the main story in the last few days, but right underneath the radar was the latest development in...
Have you seen the latest economic indicators? Didn't think so.
For those of us living in Venezuela, you only need a short stroll to your local market to see the current state of our economy. However, there’s always the...
Malaria's unwelcome comeback
Once, a long time ago, we were pioneers in erradicating malaria, but now the endemic disease is more rooted than ever in Venezuela. Yet even if we have addressed this theme several...
Journalism under siege
What’s new with the communicational hegemony these days? Well, a radio station was shut down in Barinas, and a radio show was suspended in Caracas. Journalists are being fired...
Sky-high debt
Oh, Conviasa… Just when you had finally paid the debt with the Italian company that leases you a Boeing 767 for your Madrid and Buenos Aires routes, now...
Everyday life in the "Patria Querida"
No explanation is needed to see how hard everyday life is for many Venezuelans. Reports like this, from Puerto La Cruz, pretty much say it all. People were waiting in...
TSJ to citizens: the State's too busy to be accountable
As Venezuela currently faces a major shortage of medicines (with, literally, deadly consequences), a related case of corruption involving the purchase of large amounts of medicine from Cuba...
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