The @naky chronicles
One of the great things about new media is discovering new voices, people who wouldn’t get heard if the public sphere was still in the hands of the...
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2001: A Pigs('-Legs)-in-Space Odyssey
It’s been a tough old month for Caracas tabloid 2001, as they face two different forms of repression. Last Friday, three journalists went down to Fuerte Tiuna to cover...
Another local paper bites the dust
Barinas newspaper De Frente is the latest casualty of the lack of newsprint which is affecting many regional papers in Venezuela. As an extra wrinkle, they aren’t even...
A territorial mess, cont.
Venezuela is divided into states. States are divided into municipalities. Each municipality has one mayor, and each state has one governor.That is what the Constitution says. Simple, right?...
Cesppa backtracks... just a little bit
Since its creation by decree earlier this month, there’s been a lot of controversy over the new State entity known as CESPPA (Strategic Center for the Security and...
With papers like these...
For a long time, I held that Venezuelan papers were their own worst enemies. Even if the government has recently taken the top spot from them, we shouldn’t...
Cancillería blues
After four years without a salary increase, the workers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MPPRE) said “enough!” this week and staged a loud protest outside the Ministry’s Administrative...
Communicational Hegemony vs. Mozart
This piece of news made me desperately sad. Caracas’s lone classical music radio station, the Emisora Cultural, is now off the air in Caracas after CONATEL failed to process its...
A territorial mess
Back to basics: according to the Constitution of 1999, Venezuela is now organized into 23 States (which are divided in 335 Municipalities), a Capital District and a small group...
Tail-between-my-legs Chronicles
Venezuela is now the riskiest country in the world. This damning-yet-not-completely-unexpected development is not unrelated with what is happening in Buenos Aires. Argentina, who for years has been...
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