Illegal Mining Outlawed
MINCI’s propaganda pitch on the virtues of expropriating the Gold mining sector pushes the boundries of revolutionary non-sequitur. Consistently recasting mining practices that are – and always have...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Never! Never ever! Never in a million years! Never, you hear?!...NEVER! Ok, just this once.
Newsflash: Hugo Chávez vows never to recognize any government in Honduras Libya other than Zelaya’s Gaddafi’s. Oh…right… The pathos, the isolation, the sheer ranting lunacy is really reaching...
“The market in physical gold is tiny, and largely comprised of nut cases.”
Turns out transporting 211,000 kg. of gold to Caracas isn’t exactly straightforward. The basic problem is insurance. Felix Salmon has the skinny: I have no idea how many...
Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
The Libyan uprising through rojo-rojito-tinted glasses
AVN: “Obama demands Gaddafi’s resignation as a condition to stopping the blood-bath in Libya.” TeleSUR: “Cameron affirms that aggression against the Libyan people was ‘necessary'” Aporrea: “NATO using sonic...
Stand By Your Man Chronicles
Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the...
Pablo Pérez has another bite at the launch cherry [Updated]
Better… UPDATE: Replaced clip with longer clip of the same speech. Snark after the jump…
The Loudmouth and the Scorpion
The AP’s roundup on the latest batch of VTV Wiretap broadcasts is well worth a read. The highlight? Mario Silva’s hilarious line of defense. The recordings, it turns out,...
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