HRW "unlikes" Maduro
The 2014 World Report from Human Rights Watch just came out. Let’s just say the chapter on Venezuela is not too friendly with the government. Among its many...
Life
Dude, where's my car battery?
A new criminal trend has appeared in recent weeks in Caracas and other cities: the theft of car batteries in plain sight. Many people are reporting that their...
Or else!
Carabobo governor Francisco Ameliach is serious about crime. How serious? So serious, the guy is giving the state’s criminal gangs a deadline: give up all your weapons within 20 days,...
Chavismo's political agency problem
Turn on the TV, and it strikes you in the face – the stratospheric stupidity of the people in charge in Venezuela. Whether it’s Nicolás Maduro talking about...
Party in the C.P.A. (Tocorón Prison)
Remember the tale of Tokio discotheque, located inside Tocorón Prison in Aragua? Well, the prison night-club has returned to the headlines: an 18-year old girl died of a...
The mysterious 30%
The government plans on setting a maximum profit of 30% for everyone and everything in Venezuela. Funny enough, Maduro says he is doing so to preserve people’s economic...
The causes of crime in one graph
Take it away, World Justice Project.Should it surprise you that a country with no justice system, tons of weapons, and lots of drug smuggling … is a killing...
The maimed generation, by @ConIdayVuelta
I don’t really know what this blog post is about, but it has a little bit of everything: maimed pigeons, mold with an attitude, onion bits in the...
"El Impulso" will live on... for now
Hours before Nicolas Maduro announced the coming end of CADIVI, Barquisimeto’s main paper El Impulso made public that its request for currency to buy newsprint was finally approved,...
At long last socialism
After Nicolás Maduro’s State of the Union speech yesterday, one of the first things I did was try and fetch information on Venezuela’s new Finance Minister, Rodolfo Marco...
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