The Grapes of Nostalgia
This year, for our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, I’ll be the only person art the table who won’t finish his grapes before midnight.
Life
Delcy’s Christmas Wishes
As Delcy Rodríguez humiliates recently released political prisoners by carefully erasing their experiences, we meditate on the perverts’ fraught relationship with the truth.
About the "Released" Political Prisoners
There are many political prisoners we don’t know about, whose families have no access to the press, neglected in the anonymity of group arrests, unreported for fear of reprisal. This is a brief description of their tragedies, divided into the groups in which they were released.
A Good Venezuelan Christmas
All we want for Christmas is a Feliz Navidad.
Christmas Archives: How the Grinch Raided Christmas
It's become tradition: each year he growls and drums his fingers thinking of how he’ll keep Christmas from coming to Venezuela. What does the Grinch have in store this time? Anabella Abadi wrote this post on November 6 this year, and it's prophetic. Down to the children-kidnapping bit.
Christmas Archives: "I'm Dreaming of a Shit Christmas"
You know that if-I-had-only-just-shut-up feeling you get when you’ve been complaining about something that gets just unbelievably worse? Well, just enjoy this December 10, 2016 Christmas post by Raúl Stolk.
Christmas Archives: This Christmas, hallacas could taste different
In December 2012, the average price for a kilo of meat was around Bs. 30. This Christmas, you can buy 1kg. of meat for Bs. 200.000 if you're lucky enough to find and afford it. In this November 7, 2012 post, Gustavo Hernández reminds us that scarce hallaca ingredients were already a thing back then.
Piñera, La Gordis and Chilezuela
Right-wing Sebastián Piñera just won the presidency of Chile and will be taking over after many years of leftie Bachelet rule. What does this mean for the huge Venezuelan expat community down South?
Falling Into Line
I went to the heart of chavista territory to see why people voted red and played along with the dictatorship. My worst fear is that, eventually, we will all play along as well.
Sinopec Settles PDVSA's Cabilla Shaft
Just when you think PDVSA's penchant for criminal mischief can't get any more malignantly self-destructive, they go off and stiff the Chinese on a $43.5 million contract for re-bar.
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