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,...
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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,...
Bye Bye Bucaramanga...
So the last few days at the ULibro book fair put on by the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga were just awesome: Bucaramanga was a real revelation, and the...
Visiting a public hospital? Bring your own hammock
The board of the Enrique Tejera Hospital in Valencia will now formally allow relatives of patients to bring hammocks, so they can sleep inside its premises at night....
Diversity of opinion = Losing cable access
Maracaibo’s Global TV was dropped from cable carriers last Sunday under an apparent order of the broadcasting authority CONATEL. Their crime? Being one of the few stations in...
Communicational hegemony, meet the regional papers
Maracaibo newspaper Versión Final has been facing difficult times: due to the lack of foreign currency, they ran out of newsprint and were forced to suspend operations for several...
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