All Your Wire Transfers Are Belong To Us
Sudeban takes one giant step forward to the creation of the Cyber-Surveillance state by ensuring it gets its hands on every single bank transfer anyone makes in Venezuela.
Life
The Longest 40 Minutes of Marino's Life
Violent burglaries have become so common in Venezuela, it's not easy to tell if a given attack is politically motivated or not. Just ask Marino.
In Petare, Chavismo goes stealth
William Ojeda sized up his chances of getting elected on a red ticket in Petare and made the logical - if morally bankrupt - choice.
A headlamp! A headlamp! My cocaine kingdom for a headlamp!
Drug traffickers have just as hard a time finding spare parts for their cars as you do. Which is a good thing, as far as Colombian police is concerned.
Putting the "low" back into Halloween
Halloween is here, and transculturated pitiyanqui reader of an Imperialist-language blog that you are, we bet you're chomping at the bit to go out and have some patria-selling fun. Here's how!
Franklin Nieves's Other Problem with Evidence
You'd think Franklin Nieves would've put together a little file with some irrefutable evidence of his allegations before he bolted. No such luck.
Goldbuggered
Remember the big show the government put on to bring home the nation's gold reserves? Yup, they've started selling those now.
Gumersindo Rodríguez, 1933-2015
In his memory, we reprint the profile of him published in The New York Times on September 2nd, 1975.
Venezuela elected to UN Human Rights Council (again)
Proving once more that the U.N. is immune to irony (and ridicule), Venezuela has again been tapped to pass judgment on other countries' human rights records.
How Admissions Test Populism is Killing La Simón
By hijacking the university's admissions system, the Sistema Nacional de Ingreso sabotages the Universidad Simón Bolívar's longstanding mission of becoming an engine for social mobility.
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