El Chigüire Gives Up
This feels historic, somehow. Venezuela’s premier source of satire bows to the evident: you just can’t parody a movement this good at parodying itself.
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Sponsored hip-hop
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
Piñata Ethics (Updated)
So I got myself in a bit of trouble yesterday. My wife, who is very not-Venezuelan read Emiliana’s story about the Semana Santa operativos with evident alarm. But worse was to come when she...
Ad War Update: "pre-campaña" edition
As Emiliana already told us, we’re not officially in campaign yet (it starts on April 2nd) but still the electioneering is in full swing as part of the pre-campaña....
It's a funny kind of anti-imperialism
Regardless of Nicolás Maduro’s rhetoric, the facts simply speak for themselves: We’re not just dependent on the U.S. as a market for the oil exports that pay for...
Jail House Night-Club, cont.
Looks like the El Rodeo I’s month-old nightclub won’t the only one up and running in the Venezuelan prison system. According to El Nacional’s crime reporter Thabata Molina,...
Assad and Maduro, still BFFs
In its last meeting, the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend the probe of the ongoing Syrian civil war until next year. The resolution was approved by...
Jail House Night-Club
Remember that nightclub in Tocorón Prison from last year? Well, it now has serious competition from a brand new place inside El Rodeo I in Guatire, just outside Caracas....
The short version
So this is sort of remarkable.
Venetur Hotels: where politics come first
Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming ordered via Twitter that Venetur (State-owned company in charge of tourism services, including 14 hotels across the country) not to hire “…anyone who makes...
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