Mining for news
Don’t miss Efecto Cocuyo’s take on illegal mining in Venezuela’s South. Thanks to intrepid reporters working for Discovery Max, we can witness the devastation that illegal mining is causing in the...
#Odebrechting - an Easter egg in the Brazilian media
Dilma Rousseff, the current President of Brazil, is leading a crumbling government, what with her poll ratings in the tweens. It’s always fun to see a chavista ally eating...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Venezuela has fifteen official holidays, not counting the rest of Holy Week (only Thursday and Friday are official holidays). On top of this, Venezuelans spend countless hours outside of...
Your signature or your life
A few years ago, Hugo Chávez enacted one of his most vile yet brutally effective political strategies: the Lista Tascón. When the opposition began collecting signatures to recall his...
Biggest source of news for Venezuela today? Lausanne
I have a pretty busy day today, but keep an eye out for what is happening in Lausanne in the negotiations between the world’s powers and Iran. Apparently,...
Suggested Sunday reading
Two great pieces from two friends-of-the-blog, both of them at Harvard University, both of them in Spanish. First off, Francisco Monaldi goes deep on hyperinflation in El Nacional. Francisco...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Some of you know that I live in a house as the sole male surrounded by four wonderful ladies. Yet as a man happily subdued, I have been trained to...
Alicia Bárcena's blinders
The head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), well-known chavista hack Alicia Bárcena, was in Caracas yesterday. While she was there, she praised...
#VenezuelaEsEsperanza #VenezuelaEsPlomo
A few days ago, Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev published a story on the black market for bullets. After reading it, one comes away with the clear impression that the military’s...
Did they hand out straightjackets in this drill?
At first I had no idea what this drill was about. Fake doctors? Fake blood? Sound effects? People running aimlessly? Why, there was even a kid dressed up...
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