No manejamos ese tipo de información
by Erin Fletcher We’re not quite seated, but I’ve already launched into my well-rehearsed spiel. For perhaps the fifth time that day, I say I’m an economics professor...
Life
One day we'll have tough investigative media...like Nicaragua does.
Nicaragua’s Confidencial magazine has the scoop on corruption in Albanisa – Alba de Nicaragua, S.A. – a binational firm created with Venezuelan state capital. Though Albanisa has expanded...
Parallel campaign update
Before the campaign began in July, the Chavernment launched the “two-hearts’ strategy”: A elaborated PR campaign for the Executive branch (Venezuelan Heart), which contained elements that were similar...
No wonder tourists don't wanna come back here
Yesterday, Juan Cristobal picked apart a report from the BBC about the decline of foreign tourism in Venezuela. It’s an overdetermined problem: there’s more than one explanation, and each...
Yanosequépensar about the Yanomami Massacre
If a massacre happens in the middle of the jungle, and nobody’s there to see it, should it make a headline? This is the troubling question we’ve all...
"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, ctd.
Simplicio Hernández, father of Delta Amacuro State governor Lizeta Hernández, was kidnapped last night in Tucupita by five individuals. He was himself governor of the state between 1979...
Oh, Sarah
Sarah Grainger of the BBC does her best to ask the question: why don’t more tourists come to Venezuela? However, she falls far short, mostly due to her...
Another Wildcat Strike in Sidor
The good news is that raising hell at that cadena in Caruachi a few weeks back paid off: talks on a collective bargaining agreement have finally been launched...
What Chávez is offering
Yesterday there was a little brouhaha regarding some documents that people within the MUD may or may not have authored. It prompted Chávez to go out and say...
The Many Downsides of Building in a Mad Rush
The Chavernment’s housing program, Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela is still going full throttle, but its path has been rocky: damage to the enviroment, workplace accidents and workers mad...
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