An illusion of harmony, but without the harmony
Few books have marked Venezuela’s public debate as much as “El caso Venezuela: una illusion de armonía.” It was published in the mid-1980s by a group of young...
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The Week in Bullets
We came up with a name for the Weekend Recap column: The Week in Bullets. Even when you may end up drenched in blood with this edition, please...
Habemus Landrieu-gate
OK, so it took a few days, but finally a major political news outlet in the US is following the scandal involving Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and her close, intimate...
Stealth Censorship Chronicles
Since its acquisition by a mysterious, quite possibly bogus Spanish investment firm, Caracas newspaper El Universal has shown that it will follow the path of Ultimas Noticias and Globovision,...
Evil in the Bayou
This U.S. Senator just blocked the targeted sanctions on Venezuelan human rights violators because she loves CITGO money too much.
One hundred years of oil
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of commercial oil production in Venezuela. On July 31st 1914, the Zumaque I oil well in Mene Grande, Zulia, became the country’s first oil...
Decepciones a la holandesa, por @dlansberg
(Apologies for the Spanish post. Hace unos días, la misteriosa plana mayor de El Universal le comunicó a varios de sus columnistas de opinión que ya no publicarían...
How the Revolution Ate the Joropo-Playing Japanese Students
A special investigation by Kanako Noda. This post is available in Japanese here. 日本語でも読めます。 Este artículo está disponible en español aquí. The four Japanese students look hot and excited...
Chávez eres (ta)tú
Anabella and Barbara tackled the wackiness of Chavez’s fandom a few weeks ago with a brief post on the man’s signature and all new typeface. Early this morning...
Conviasa: The misery of (not) flying
Last week, the passengers of state-owned Conviasa flight 3013 from Madrid to Caracas found themselves trapped into a nightmare: the flight was suspended, and no immediate back-up plan was...
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