Could our freakout become their October surprise?
It’s an underexplored question: our presidential elections happen to come just 30 days before Gringoistan heads to the polls. Which means in a Plan Aterra scenario where the...
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Muse on the loose
One way this presidential campaign has already paid off is in the trove of great writing that it’s been inspiring. First, this magnum opus by Boris Muñoz, first...
The BusCaracas will finally arrive...
The neverending story of BusCaracas, the chavista Bus Rapid Transit project that’s faced more crises over the year than a Telenovela heroine, may finally be coming to an...
Domesticar el Petróleo
Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe the problem with the oil industry is down to gigantism, an inhuman scale that concentrates wealth along a handful...
Dirty campaign update, ctd.
The parallel dirty campaign against Henrique Capriles is doubling down on the “Paquetazo” narrative and goes into fear mongering territory, with some help of CG animations: Beside the...
Does anybody actually edit El Universal's opinion pages? UPDATED
According to this opinion piece in El Universal, a couple of Venezuelan guys in Miami have just invented a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Really. Amazingly,...
Ad War Update, cont.
HCR’s latest one-minute spot offer some highlights of his “First 100 days’ plan”, focusing on the adjustment of the minimum wage and stopping the regaladera to other countries:...
Great Moments in Hysterical Headline Writing
See that scary headline in Spain’s conservative ABC newspaper on Chávez’s “armed comandos” in case he loses the election? Scary!…until you read the actual text of the article...
Laureano nails it
Laureano Márquez has a wonderful piece today, where he weighs in on the milieu of the times. So if you’re the sort of person who thinks milieu counts...
Worth a Thousand Words Chronicles
Funny to see most major media shying away from showing the fire in El Palito refinery from this angle. Self-censorship: thine homes are many.
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