Where are the China bashers?
Nicolás Maduro is wrapping up a trip to the piggy bank visit to China. The deal that he signed means that China gives us money so that we...
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The Battle of Sabaneta Prison Ends (Updated)
In the end, there was no final battle between Sabaneta Prison pran-in-chief “El Mocho Edwin” and State forces. Instead, all the remaining inmates were moved out over the...
I come not to bury IMF Conditionality, but to praise it!
We may hate to admit it, but Nicolás Maduro’s Chinese junket has, as far as we can tell, been a success. He gets to leave with a headline...
Why Communicational Hegemony Terrifies Me UPDATED
The biggest drug bust in as long as anybody can remember goes down on a flight departing from Venezuela and this is what the State Media Conglomerate has...
Proof positive that the National Guard runs drugs out of Maiquetía
The French Interior Minister announced today that 1,300 kilos of high purity cocaine were discovered in Paris on an Air France flight from Caracas on September 11th. The telling...
The Battle of Sabaneta Prison, cont.
Sabaneta Prison remains tense, even after a large number of inmates have been transferred to other prisons. Yesterday, the major pran of Sabaneta, “El Mocho Edwin”, made an appereance...
The Battle of Sabaneta Prison
For the second time in a month, a serious spasm of violence convulsed Sabaneta Prison in Maracaibo. The toll this time: 16 people dead. At the center of...
What's cooking at the AN today? (Updated)
Access to the first session of the National Assembly after its month-long recess will be even more restricted than usual: not only private media is banned from covering...
The true victims of censorship in Venezuela speak up
The guy must have banged up his head pretty bad, because this is just out of hand. El presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro, denunció este domingo la...
The uncertain fate of Global TV (Updated)
Two weeks after Maracaibo’s Global TV lost its cable TV access by order of CONATEL, its director Guido Briceño gave a press conference to explain what’s been going...
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