An Exhaustive Investigation
This morning, President Chávez promised an exhaustive investigation into the causes of last night’s fatal blast at Amuay Refinery. The sun hasn’t even set yet, and that investigation...
Life
The Cadena that Wasn't
For once, today, Venezuela faced a situation where a Cadena Nacional would have been entirely appropriate, even welcome. Facing a genuine national disaster, people naturally turn to their...
Por Eso Es Que Estamos Como Estamos Chronicles
Venezuela’s summary in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report. Read it and weep… (click to enlarge)
How to lose businesses and alienate investors
Last week (during a house-giveaway cadena), the comandante presidente committed himself yet again to work side by side with the private sector if he’s reelected on October 7th....
Who cares about Cadenas? Doesn't everyone in the barrio have DirecTV?
It may seem like it, what with so many visible satellite dishes. And yet, alas, no…
Chain of Fools
Continuing my quest to use that little corner of the NYTimes website to explain things that are basically inexplicable to a gringo, I take on the cultural juggernaut...
Dragunovs in Hell
According to one press report, inmates involved in last weekend’s Yare I riot had at least 100 assault rifles (!!), an M60 machine gun (500 rounds per minute to you and...
Gun Control in Venezuela is easier said than done
On the night of August 12th, a small Sucre Municipality (a.k.a. Petare) Police Post near a shopping mall was attacked by four armed thugs. Two police officers were wounded...
File Under "Signs of the Apocalypse"
What’s scarier? That chavistas think these images are going to make da kidz vote for Chávez, or that they’re right, possibly? And, pardon me while I pick up...
Pick of the Comments
Following on from this morning’s post on the Nonopticon at Tocorón, a couple of Foucault readers note something that was very much on my mind as I wrote...
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