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...
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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...
"Torre de David" goes Hollywood
The story of La Torre of David, an incomplete Caracas skyscraper which turned into a vertical slum, is well known around the world: from an award-winning architecture project...
Radio silence in Amazonas
This article from daily Tal Cual offers some details about the aftermath of the communicational hegemony’s recent offensive… deep down in Amazonas State. In the last month, CONATEL...
Nightmare weekend at Vargas Hospital
The working staff at Hospital Vargas (one of the oldest in Caracas) went through hell this weekend after two armed colectivos took its premises by force on two consecutive...
Peking (lame) duck
A few weeks ago I wrote an article for Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog about Nicolás Maduro’s China trip. Given the influence China is playing in how Venezuela shapes...
Cesppa, Cesna: Both are the same, yet different...
How’s this for an Orwelian agency title? The Strategic Center for the Security and Protection of the Fatherland (CESPPA) , tha thas been just set up by decree...
Bolívares! Bolívares! (UPDATED: Maduro loses)
In what has to be a first, the promotional video for Ciudad Bolívar’s sure-to-be-doomed candidacy for the 2019 Panamerican Games consists, mostly, of a jingle praising our currency....
Communicational hegemony = fun with numbers
Pro-government website Noticias 24 had an interesting headline this morning: In other words, Venezuela was one of the countries in Latin America that received the highest numbers of...
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