Alternative Twitter-verse
You probably know about the strange case of the fake child kidnapping that has served as an excuse for Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz to propose to regulate social...
Life
Biggest source of news for Venezuela today? Lausanne
I have a pretty busy day today, but keep an eye out for what is happening in Lausanne in the negotiations between the world’s powers and Iran. Apparently,...
Suggested Sunday reading
Two great pieces from two friends-of-the-blog, both of them at Harvard University, both of them in Spanish. First off, Francisco Monaldi goes deep on hyperinflation in El Nacional. Francisco...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Some of you know that I live in a house as the sole male surrounded by four wonderful ladies. Yet as a man happily subdued, I have been trained to...
Alicia Bárcena's blinders
The head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), well-known chavista hack Alicia Bárcena, was in Caracas yesterday. While she was there, she praised...
#VenezuelaEsEsperanza #VenezuelaEsPlomo
A few days ago, Bloomberg’s Anatoly Kurmanaev published a story on the black market for bullets. After reading it, one comes away with the clear impression that the military’s...
Did they hand out straightjackets in this drill?
At first I had no idea what this drill was about. Fake doctors? Fake blood? Sound effects? People running aimlessly? Why, there was even a kid dressed up...
With Friends Like These Chronicles
Fresh from the delicious story of Karen Halnon, the Penn State Abington sociology prof who recently declared she was smoking on an international airline flight in solidarity with the...
Stay In The Closet
The statements by Freddy Bernal, saying that gay people can be cops as long as they don’t say so, are apalling, infuriating and shameful. Furthermore, to see a news anchor...
To Recall is to Live, Winning Ugly Edition
teleSUR English recently had the curtesy to run a hatchet job on me built around this post, from December 2013, which they didn’t have the actual courage to...
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