Zuñi-ordani-nomics 101
Old lefties have a soft spot for pseudonyms. J.V. Rangel is Marciano, Teodoro is Simon Boccanegra, everybody knows about those. But recently, Felipe Pérez alleged that our own...
Francisco Toro
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Mutatis Mutandis
Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the...
Viral Now
How To get into the Metro – The Venezuelan Way This is the second greatest video from the Valles del Tuy commuter train – after the greatest cadena...
With papers like these...
For a long time, I held that Venezuelan papers were their own worst enemies. Even if the government has recently taken the top spot from them, we shouldn’t...
Communicational Hegemony vs. Mozart
This piece of news made me desperately sad. Caracas’s lone classical music radio station, the Emisora Cultural, is now off the air in Caracas after CONATEL failed to process its...
A Storm in a Tweet Cup?!
So who was the mystery, high-ranking patient whose supposed emergency transfer to Caracas’s Military Hospital was so secret it hasn’t even been denied yet? Was there an actual...
Calling Chicago
So I was on WBEZ’s Worldview show – (a.k.a., NPR in Chicago) earlier today. Here’s the audio clip:
The opposition will not be televised
So I really like the way Miguel Angel Santos writes. In the barren wasteland of the spirit that is El Universal’s OpEd page, he stands apart for the...
Maduro repeals the Laws of Physics
Look at this photo closely. Does this look to you like a drug plane that’s been shot down by an F16 fighter jet?! Because that’s the crazy story...
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