Getting groceries the "commando" way
In recent years, a new kind of robbery has become recurrent in Venezuela: the “commando assault”. Its modus operandi is based on a large and organized group of...
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President Maduro's first political prisoner
Not content with throwing Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni in jail, chavismo now throws her lawyer in jail for “obstruction of justice.” Great PR move, geniuses.
Lovely Revolution of Love
CNN highlights what the Revolution is all about.
Ad War Update: PSUV Round-Up
The PSUV is playing again to the “Chavez factor” for the 16-D election: All candidates designated by the comandante presidente are his candidates. Even after some cases of...
Where's Waldo? (Hint: Not in Brazil)
The point of my “Where’s Waldo?” posts, which I started a few weeks back, was to keep track of Hugo Chávez’s increasingly rare public appearances. These posts, however,...
Lost in the Japanese countryside
Quico chronicles how the Japanese also sometimes feel like foreigners in their own land.
The great public safety flop
Six months have passed since the first announcement of the 19th safety plan of the Chavernment: Gran Misión “A Toda Vida Venezuela”. How it has fared so far?...
Zero hour for public transportation
Right now, public transportation buses in Barquisimeto (called the rutas) has the words hora 0 (zero hour) written in all their side windows. Those words indicate the possibility...
Ad War Update: MUD Round-Up
Instead of all running behind one consolidated platform as Chavismo does, the MUD candidates for governor are running locally-focused campaigns. Here’s some of them: Nueva Esparta Governor Morel...
Two timing S.O.B.
I can’t really explain why, but this is a topic I really only felt comfortable writing about in Spanish.
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