That's not a campaign launch, that's a rancho en llamas!
OK, y’all will say I’m biased against UNT, but seriously, this is Pablo Pérez’s campaign launch? I’m sorry, but that’s very weak. It’s not just that the visuals,...
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The Oppo Field: Pablo is up, Manuel is out, Leopoldo is on tenterhooks
Now that UNT has just one candidate, the time has come to update our Oppo Field Roundup. At this point, the Top Tier is pretty clear: Top Tier...
The Ruskies better get in line (UPDATED)
So, now that President Chávez has pledged to nationalize the Gold Mining industry, what’s going to happen to Rusoro? You know Rusoro: it’s the politically-connected Russian mining company that had...
Worst. Pinchazo. EVER!
VTV’s charming habit of broadcasting evidence to incriminate itself of illegal wiretapping has crossed some kind of chavista loopiness Event Horizon. At this point, the old take on...
Diminishing returns to the casquillo diet
The government’s latest orchestrated outbreak of opposition-baiting tirades is, frankly, tiresome. Time was when the opposition really could be riled, baited, worked up and even split by a savage...
Secrets and Lies
In a way, the most remarkable thing about El Universal’s front page story on the murder rate today isn’t that 8,839 Venezuelans have been murdered so far this...
Dystopia Unarmed
Four days of rioting in seven cities. Hundreds of shops looted. Mass disorder on a scale unseen in 30 years. Five dead. Why? It’s simple. In England, nobody...
Dispatches from the other end of the sanity spectrum
There’s something grimly funny about this story on reactions to Mario Silva‘s whacked out personal attack on Miguel Henrique Otero..and something pathetic, heart-rending about its studious avoidance of repeating the phrase...
9,621,334,845.49 vs. 314
Nine billion Six-hundred and twenty-one million Three hundred and thirty four thousand Eight-hundred and forty five dollars and forty-nine cents. That, according to new revelations from Mérida National...
Venezuelan Coffee Growers vs. the Frente Starbuckista de Liberación Nacional
There’s a certain guilty amusement to seeing chavistas tangle themselves up in knots having to relearn, through trial and error (and error, and error, and error, and error…)...
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