The Savage Discourse Revisited
It’s been eight years since I translated the passages below from the classic (if too-little-read) book by Merideño philosopher/poet J.M. Briceño Guerrero, but I still sporadically go back...
Life
Prannation
Just finished Jon Lee Anderson’s (infuriatingly paywalled) New Yorker piece about the ranchification of Caracas. Anderson well justifies his reputation as a journalistic legend here: the piece really...
A hard day at Uribana (Updated)
Today, personnel of the Prisons Ministry along with soldiers of the National Guard tried to inspect Uribana Prison (located outside Barquisimeto) for illegal materials. The procedure was supposed...
If bread is lacking, better bring some games
The Chavernment asked the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) for the right to organize the 18th Pan American Games in 2019. Those games would be held in Bolívar...
G.M.V.V. Chronicles
Last month, after two years of waiting in shelters, 96 displaced families were given the keys of their brand new apartments in a new tower built in Western...
The morgue conundrum, cont.
The days of Caracas’ main morgue in Bello Monte could be numbered: in the upcoming weeks, two new facilities located in Caricuao and El Llanito will take on...
Tower of terror
Jon Lee Anderson penned an epic article on life in Caracas for the New Yorker, and after jumping through many hoops, I finally dished out $5.95 and read...
This is your country on shortages
The current problem of food shortages in Venezuela was the subject of a recent report by the Associated Press. One of the persons interviewed calls the experience of...
The cost of Cuban "expertise"
As the ongoing electric crisis continues, this blog reported last September how Cuba was helping the national electric company CORPOELEC handle the numerous problems of our power grid...
Chavismo is coming for grandma
… and I mean that literally. According to La Verdad, a Maracaibo newspaper, José Álvarez, a rural Táchira native, tortured and killed his 80-year old mother because “god”...
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