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,...
Life
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.
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...
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...
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