"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...
Life
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...
The curious case of Mariana Rondón
Ten days ago, the Venezuelan film Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) won the Golden Shell, the highest prize of the prestigious San Sebastián International Film Festival. The small urban...
Adventures in birtherism
The Venezuelan birther movement started out on the fringes of political discussion. It was a subject few people dared to touch, and when they did, it was a...
How is our internet doing? In one word, badly
The Venezuela chapter of the recent “Freedom on the Net” report (by the NGO Freedom House) offers a pretty good summary of how the quality of Internet here...
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