Worst. GMVV House. Ever!
Following on from GEHA’s post, some GMVV houses are collapsing before they’re even assigned! Update: Needless to say, this one got chigüired in an instant.
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"Nobody believes me when I say Caracas is making a comeback..."
BrianPablo has a lovely riff on the massively under-reported world of Caracas street fairs. The streets were packed to the nines. Kids on skateboards or riding bikes, teenagers...
That Spending Binge Chart, Adjusted for Inflation This Time
After a series of virtual (and well deserved) coscorrones for publishing what really was a misleading post this morning, I went back and re-did that M2 expansion chart including...
The Spending Binge in Comparative Perspective
Correction: As several commenters pointed out, this chart is badly misleading in this form, as it doesn’t adjust for inflation. A corrected version can be seen here.
El lado no tan lindo de la noche...
From comments, as translated by FT, I’m a woman, born and raised in Venezuela. My problem with Miss Venezuela isn’t that some girls decide to go hungry, undertake...
El País que No Cambió - Miss Venezuela LiveBlog
Just for old times sake, I’m watching Miss Venezuela tonight. (It’s streaming live online – just click here!) It’s so weird that this still goes on. It’s like...
Schrödinger's Bond
Did Chávez have his “you didn’t build that” moment after the Amuay disaster when he said that, accident or no accident, “as some philosopher whose name I don’t...
#AccountabilityFail
After recounting the whole sordid series of fuck-ups that have plagued PDVSA over the last nine years, from Maletingate and PudreVAL to Illaramendi and the Guarapiche Spill, The...
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