Savage Discourse Redux
Juan’s latest is as good an excuse as any to repost my partial translation of J.M. Briceño Guerrero’s 1979 screed El Discurso Salvaje. It’s not an easy read, and...
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Money for nothing and your lights for free
There really should be a word for it: the systematic mismatch between the things that cause outrage in our public sphere and the ones that cripple our society’s...
Just 3.5% in kickbacks?! Man, those Navantia guys are tough...
What does it say about Venezuela that when I read this story about Spanish shipbuilder Navantia paying €42 million in kickbacks for the contract to build those eight...
A peek inside PGV
To my chronic frustration, we never get a proper chance to look inside Venezuelan prison walls. That’s why Ross Kemp’s Extreme World documentary on crime in Venezuela deserves such...
The Family vs. Society?
Yet another runner in the race to explain the old imponderable: ¿Por Qué es Que Estamos Como Estamos? In a famous study half a century ago, the political scientist Edward Banfield coined...
JCCaldera Press Conference Liveblog
After a grainy videotape was published this morning of Primero Justicia congressman and candidate to the Petare Mayorship Juan Carlos Caldera receiving packs of cash from a shadowy...
JCCaldera Steps In It
Hand it to Jorge Rodríguez: Comando Carabobo’s smear campaign is extremely well orchestrated. The video, apparently made last June, shows close Capriles supporter Juan Carlos Caldera accepting a...
The CFR Heebie Jeebies
This CFR memo, by Patrick Duddy, gave me the heebbie jeebbies. Should Chavez appear to be losing the election, die suddenly, or withdraw from public life for health...
The CFR Heebie Jeebies
This CFR memo, by Patrick Duddy, gave me the heebbie jeebbies. Should Chavez appear to be losing the election, die suddenly, or withdraw from public life for health...
My other problem with Capriles's more-Mercales ad
Addendum: Watching that ad again, I think my earlier criticism was overstated. 95% of the messaging is fine. There are just a few sentences towards the end where his...
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