Inside soaps
One of the perks of writing the blog is that I get to meet and interact with interesting people I wouldn’t normally associate with – both in the comments section,...
Life
"From impossible planning to permanent improvisation"
That title is not mine. I wish I could claim it: it’s brilliant. But it belongs to Jorge Giordani. It’s what he meant to call a book he wanted...
"From impossible planning to permanent improvisation"
That title is not mine. I wish I could claim it: it’s brilliant. But it belongs to Jorge Giordani. It’s what he meant to call a book he wanted...
Mr. Granger goes to Washington
After last week’s events in Brasilia, Guyanese President David Granger is now headed to the U.S. capital to participate in a regional security conference and to meet with...
#HablaLaOnu #HotAir #ConcernsConcerns
The UN Human Rights Commission came out with a report (in draft form, but since everyone is tweeting about it, I assume it’s the definitive version) on Venezuela....
Inside the Hegemony's Alternative Twitter-verse
Have you ever noticed how many pro-government Trending Topics are all over the Venezuelan Twittersphere? Ever wonder how the central government really does that? The folks at NGO IPYS Venezuela recently released...
Recovering the Esequibo, one cédula at a time
The Esequibo rift is getting more complicated than ever, especially after last week’s events in Brasilia. Even if Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez went on State TV to claim...
A disaster in Brasilia?
If you scan the vanilla-red webpages of Venezuela’s “hegemonized” media, you might learn that Nicolás Maduro went to a Mercosur summit in Brasilia today. Speeches were given, documents...
Santa Bárbara
It’s 6:30 PM, and it’s already pitch dark in Maracaibo, courtesy of Hugo Chávez’s tantrum that led to a change in the time zone a few years back. I’m having...
First they came for Cuba. Then they came for Iran.
Little by little, Venezuela’s supposed “allies” are acting against her interests by reaching agreements with the “imperialist” powers of the West. On the heels of Cuba’s rapprochement with...
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