It's a kind of magic...
This one is straight from the por-eso-es-que-estamos-como-estamos file: the money the government spends building schools ends up funding…Santería shrines.
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Wait...what?!
This note, which turned up on Caracas Chronicles’ Facebook page, may be the weirdest thing I’ve seen all week. Reader’s Digest We are researching a piece for Reader’s...
Et tu...Pablo?!!
Sorry for the lull in posting. Life happens, this week in the form of moving house: always a harrowing ordeal. (Juan, on his end, had some lame excuse...
Why Fonden accounting is never going to add up...
Deep in his comment section, the Satanic Bowel Movement turns up the smoking gun in the case for thinking Fonden’s books will never ever make sense to an...
Good News, Everyone!
Venezuela hosts one of the world’s largest gold mines, and we know it’s going to be developed now because the concession is in the capable hands of: Dot...
Jesse Goes Deep
Don’t miss this engaging, Deep-Think piece in Rebelión by Jesse Chacón (or rather, I suspect, by the Spanish grad student who ghost-writes his columns). In rare, intello form,...
Where does Fonden money go?
So now that we have those Fonden disclosure documents, it’s time to jump into the minutiae. Of course, we only have detailed 5-year disclosures for $40 billion out...
Fonden isn't just "Big", it's this big.
Perhaps the most important aspect of The Fonden Papers doesn’t have to do with the $29 billion tabulation screw-up. Indeed, innocent explanations might account for that. Perhaps the...
How exactly do you misplace $29,342,391,393.66?
This isn’t a massive, government-shaking scandal. But it should be. That’s right, it’s the full, scanned version of the Fonden report we promised you two weeks ago: the...
Procolonial Chronicles
The “procolonial forces.” That’s how Venezuela’s state news agency, AVN, now describes the Libyan rebels. Believe it! Ok, I admit it: I get this weird, dirty pleasure reading the...
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