Amnesty International details a Year of Impunity
Below, the Executive Summary to the New Amnesty International report on Venezuela: The Faces of Impunity: A Year After The Protests, Victims Still Await Justice. A year after...
Ask Smartmatic
As primaries and elections loom, @LuisCarlos Diaz’s in-depth, myth-busting interview with Smartmatic’s Rui Santos (@ElRui) is well worth an hour of your time. Longtime readers know my view here: there’s...
With Friends Like These Chronicles
Fresh from the delicious story of Karen Halnon, the Penn State Abington sociology prof who recently declared she was smoking on an international airline flight in solidarity with the...
To Recall is to Live, Winning Ugly Edition
teleSUR English recently had the curtesy to run a hatchet job on me built around this post, from December 2013, which they didn’t have the actual courage to...
The U.S. Military's Real Worry about Venezuela: That We'll Stop Giving Oil Away to Cuba
This, from a press conference today by Commander General John F. Kelly (USMC), U.S. Southern Command, simply defies parody: The real shame of it is, of course, they have...
Add $455 million to the tab
ICSID has ruled: Venezuela owes a further $455 million for the expropriation of Owens-Illinois’s bottling plants in Los Guayos, near Valencia and in Valera, in Trujillo state. That...
Behind the Scenes in a Hummer
Ten days or so ago, devoted reader/Excel nerd El Cachaco had some extra time on his hands and decided to spend it figuring out exactly how much official...
Worth Less
A year ago, the 100 bolivar banknote you see here on your left – Venezuela’s highest denominated, mind you – would buy you 92.6 U.S. cents on the parallel...
Diplomatic Inanity
Canada is in da house! Today we have a Guest Post from Sancho Panza, who went to see Venezuela’s Ambassador designate to Ottawa give a bit of a...
A Spark in San Cristobal
The prairie is dry. Bone dry. Parched. And boy is it getting hot. You wouldn’t normally worry about a spark. But when the prairie is this dry. Well. Oh, and...
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