Rule of lawlessness
If the previous post wasn’t enough, there is a newly released report that confirms this fact: We don’t like laws very much. The Rule of Law Index 2012...
Life
Another ordinary night in Caracas...
Fifty members of a paramilitary group known as colectivo tried to take over a station of the Venezuelan Criminal Police (CICPC) in Caracas. Their objective was to rescue...
Great reading for the day
Don’t miss this reportage by the supremely talented Maye Primera (in Spanish), an excerpt of an upcoming book, courtesy of Prodavinci. It’s about the deaths in the Retén...
Loose change we can believe in
A couple of weekends ago, I helped a family friend count some money, a little more than 600 Bs. F. For an hour I felt like those money...
The chavista who stole Christmas
The Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela housing program was drastically reduced right after the October 7th election. Understandably, both its workers and those waiting for new homes are not...
Accomplices Galore
I’m with Juan here. It’s not as if Judge Afiuni’s rape and torture story is some kind of freak exception. The dire, dire human rights situation inside Venezuelan...
8,191,132 rapists
Yesterday we learned that Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, Hugo Chávez’s most visible political prisoner, was tortured and raped while in jail. She bravely told her story in a...
This post practically writes itself
Yesterday, many of us did a double take when we read the latest toxic public announcement by Hugo Chávez’s economic czar, Jorge Giordani. Giordani publicly announced that Venezuelans...
Cubagua is on its own
The small island of Cubagua (part of Nueva Esparta State) was the location of Nueva Cádiz, the first Spanish settlement in Venezuela and South America. After running out...
Meddling-where-nobody-asked-me-to Chronicles
In my latest FP post, I try to make a link between J.M. Briceño Guerrero and Mitt Romney. Don’t know if I succeeded.
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