Prannation Redux
So, when the Sabaneta prison “pran” (I never know how to translate that…”prison gang dictator”?) and the Sabaneta prison warden disagree, who gets his way? Care to venture a...
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Golden Oldies
And so, one year on, the Winner in the Amuay Explosion Excuse Category, mención Transparently-Fabricated-but-Damnit-We’re-Sticking-With-Our-Story is… [envelope-rustling…] Sabotage! Well how about that! No surprise here, folks: Sabotage was the hot...
Bucaramanga Calling
So, I’ll be hawking the book at ULibro, la Feria del Libro de Bucaramanga in Colombia all next week. Around for that? Write in and and we’ll have coffee.
"We're not going to sully ourselves in the cesspool of the government camp" says Capriles as he hands out free goodies to his supporters...
Yesterday’s Capriles event in Rio Chico, narrowcast live on Capriles.tv, has more or less completed the full-body existential funk I’ve been inhabiting recently. Talking to a small audience...
I Got the Eudomar Blues
Last week, when Eudomar Tovar was named Central Bank head, lots was said about the new breed of Merentes-backed “pragmatists” in the nation’s top economic policy-making posts, with Tovar...
Como va viniendo vamos mintiendo...
Mindful of the need to establish credibility in his new, high-profile job, BCV-president Eudomar Santos Tovar wasted no time telling a massive, disprovable-with-a-five-second-google-search whopper of a lie today....
The government's poll numbers are garish (now that it doesn't matter)
Credit where credit is due. People say chavismo is terrible at planning, but it just isn’t true: the double-time dismantling of what was left of Venezuela’s democratic institutions...
Nineteen Eighty-Four on the Cheap
Damian Pratt takes a moment to commemorate the one year anniversary of that epic cadena in Caruachi last year – you remember, the one where Chávez’s handpicked audience...
Forgive me blogger for I have sinned...
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This gringo rice farmer's Bahamas vacation is brought to you by Bolivarian Socialism.
When back-assward bolivarian policy making decimates the Venezuelan rice sector, guess who picks up the slack? The WSJ looks for the cheese on the “Food Sovereignty” tostada. There’s...
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