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...
Life
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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...
All about our current healthcare crisis in one single article
The ongoing crisis of our health system is nothing new, but things are now taking one strong turn for the worse. This great report by the AP’s regional...
A new kind of draft
Recluta… there’s a word that brings memories. (In most, if not all cases, not happy ones). For a country that’s gone over 150 years without a proper shootin’...
We got your dystopia right here, man
A smart riposte to Caracas Te Quiero.
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