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...
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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...
Today in Orwellianismo Endógeno
President Maduro has announced that the government will henceforth produce a “Newscast of Truth” to be carried, en cadena, twice daily. Just to spell this out for any...
My secret man-crush on Andrés Izarra
Tourism Minister Andrés Izarra is getting restless. The architect of chavismo’s Communicational Hegemony strategy has ambitions far bigger than what his crappy new cabinet post can contain. Yesterday,...
SIBCI's Syria
A popular, patriotic government, supported by a near unanimity of the international community, besieged on all sides by blood thirsty terrorists, facing imperial aggression. A blameless government scrambling...
The Surinamese friend
Dino Bouterse, son of Suriname’s President Dési Bouterse was detained last week in Panama and then extradited to the United States to face charges of drug-smuggling and possession...
La hegemonía va por dentro
Almost a month ago, we had an unusual case of self-censorship inside the State Media System (SIBCI): the main TV channel VTV took off the air the late...
Why doesn't the opposition say more about Syria?
Nicolás Maduro is highly supportive of Syria’s dictatorial mass-murderer Bashar el Assad. He has sent subsidized diesel to Syria. At one point, there was even a nonstop Caracas-Damascus...
Globomyopia
Boris Muñoz is characteristically excellent in his treatment of the fall of Globovision to the Dark Side, in a post that covers all the story’s basics. And yet,...
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