Constituyente-palooza!
Last weekend, State media outlets dedicated almost all of their programing to cover a series of small gatherings all across Venezuela, as part of something called “Constituent Process...
Life
New planes for Conviasa, junk for the rest
Venezuelan flag carrier Conviasa has started to recieve the first group of the twenty Embraer E-190 aircraft it bought in late 2011 to Brazil. The state airline, which...
Well, this happened...
The Bolivarian Republic won the right to be a member of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. It will join Argentina and Brazil as representatives of Latin America....
Chronicles from the End of Civilization
All that’s left at this point – and it isn’t much, but it’s also not nothing – is to chronicle the rot. And I suppose it’s important to...
Misión Cáiganse a plomo
A few months ago, Hugo Chávez suddenly realized that, yes, crime was a problem. With the election now in the history books, folks can go back to killing...
Rosita and me
News this week that Venezuelan Silicon Starlet Rosita, a.k.a. Jimena Araya, a.k.a. the Pran Madame is to be made Regional Director of Human Rights in Aragua for the expropriated PODEMOS...
Anything goes in order to win
The original talanquera-jumper Francisco Arias Cárdenas faces an uphill battle to win the Zulia State Governorship, even if the comandante presidente won last month in Maracuchistan and he’s keeps...
The disconnect, cont.
I wrote days ago about the new soap opera from TVes and its apparent disconnect between what it wants to present on screen and the everyday reality that...
Go bold, other voices
I don’t want to bring the US political process into the blog except to say this one, basic thing: Barack Obama’s victory yesterday – at a time when...
This Christmas hallacas could taste different
Christmas time is near. Gaitas are already ubiquitous on the radio, and people are putting decorations in their homes, particularly ones that consume precious resources. Of course, families...
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