Economic cyberwar, cont.
CONATEL is continuing its Internet offensive against the “parallel dollar”, with the shutdown of more than 100 sites related to the black market. But looks like they decided to...
Life
Michelle CAP-chelet
(Note: a rare non-Venezuela post on the Chilean election … viewed from a Venezuelan point of view) It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Michelle Bachelet. After...
Clandestine capitalists
Work hard so you can earn a living. Buy cheap, add value, and sell for a profit. Take a risk, and reap the rewards. These are all basic...
Economic cyberwar
Missing in the news whirlpool of the last few days was the recent online crackdown to shut down websites that informed (directly or indirectly) the prices of the...
Quico's best post
Welcome Noé Toro Noda, Quico’s first son! This is a crazy world, but you’re going to love it. Feel free to drop them a line in the comments...
Breaking down Maduro-nomics
Maduro. Sunday night: “I have decided, once the Enabling Law is approved, to set percentage limits on earnings in every sector of the economy” Really Nicolás? Every sector?...
Goodbye, "Goodbye Lenin"
Another one for the Only in Venezuela files: days ago, the two main pillars of the State Propaganda Apparatus started broadcasting what they thought was a propaganda film....
Hang Jim Wyss, to scare the others
In Voltaire’s Candide, the character of Pangloss is hanged as a warning to others. I thought about this when reading the Miami Herald’s Jim Wyss tell, in his...
Soon To Be A Historical Keepsake of the Pre-Civil War Era, cont.
And in Valencia things got just plain old MadMax today…
The Communicational Hegemony Cookbook
Step 1. Invite journalists to your military base to cover your revolutionary leg-of-pork giveaway. Step 2. Let your giveaway turn into a complete fiasco, with skirmishes breaking out...
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