¿Te acuerdas, Quico?
El 10 de enero del año pasado, en Venezuela ocurrió una infamia. Un Presidente electo gravemente enfermo no pudo asistir a su toma de posesión, y contra toda...
Obsessed with Leopoldo's ethos
Leopoldo López has been attending hearings regarding his current judicial situation for the past few days. It’s been a week-long affair, which makes you wonder why they go...
El Gordo Bayón
Yorman Márquez, aka El Gordo Bayón, was gunned down a few days ago. His story is like a micro-cosm of chavista Venezuela – union leader, alleged murderer, ex-con,...
Let's wiki the Labor Law
“It used to be simple,” my friend Armando is telling me. “I used to be able to play around with the shifts depending on the changes in demand....
Zombieland
According to Nicolás Maduro, an assasination attempt against him has been thwarted. The culprits? Maria Corina Machado, along with a bunch of opposition leaders, as well as the...
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
Few things surprise me about Venezuela anymore. This is one of those things. As it turns out, we not only import gasoline, we also import homeless families. I...
Local girl does good
Garbiñe Muguruza is a young Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player that has been tagged as a future top prospect for a few years now. Born in Caracas to a Venezuelan mother...
The thin and the thick of it
There are many things that are fat in Venezuela. The people are fat, mostly as a result of a terrible diet. And Diosdado Cabello’s wallet is fat. But there are...
Bland to the bone
The Carter Center has just published a sprawling, 118-page report on the 2013 Presidential Elections in Venezuela (see PDF here in Spanish). It goes through what happened in that dramatic election...
Losing the love for the poor
Last week’s numbers from the Encuesta de Hogares, showing a sharp rise in the number of poor people in Venezuela, is a strong indictment of the chavista...
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