It's the easy way or the CONATEL way
Maracaibo-based TV channel Americana de Televisión (ATEL) is not your typical local TV station. Since its foundation ten years ago, ATEL can be only seen by cable and...
Life
Parking in Caracas is getting harder
Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about the ordeal that drivers in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities face every day just to find an available parking...
Bandes's not-so-great overseas adventures
Back in 2006, the Venezuelan state’s development bank BANDES decided to expand its operations overseas by starting a commercial branch in Uruguay. Five years later, Bandes Uruguay announced...
A great Boris Muñoz piece in The New Yorker
Boris Muñoz is one of a select few “must-read” Venezuelan writers. His latest for the New Yorker – talking about our black-and-blue National Assembly – is a doozy....
Diosdado IS chavismo
My take on the Mario Silva recording, over at the Transitions blog. The value added: The way that [the scandal] plays out will reflect who holds the key...
Reading the god-given tea leaves
Let’s recap Monday’s events: A conversation is leaked between Mario Silva and a Cuban intelligence operative, in which it is made clear that the Maduro faction in this...
AVN foils Google's evil plan (Updated)
Venezuelan State news agency AVN is apparently angry. But why? Is it because of the toilet paper shortage? Or perhaps because of recent events of violence in Cojedes...
How do you eat a barrel of oil?
I ask ’cause if the dire predictions come true, that’s what we’re gonna have to do. In the Transitions blog, I wonder if we’re on the road to...
The victim of my rant of the day: the Associated Press
Clever use of puns aside (“Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls,” chuckle chuckle), I have a small beef to raise about this...
The PSUV outsources to China
The recently named Vice-President of China Li Yuanchao visited Venezuela and met with Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Palace to sign a new batch of deals between both governments....
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