Jail or Hell
I don’t know any of the backstory to Carcel o Infierno, the stunning, terrifying animated web series about Venezuelan prison life. I don’t know who @luidigalfo, the animator...
Life
Pitch Perfect
Today, Valencia-native Felix Hernández threw very many balls perfectly during a professional baseball contest of some kind. (I think.) Sources claiming to understand the baffling arcania of American Rules...
Shutting the stable door after the horse has already been wounded, dragged out of an irrigation ditch, beaten, sodomized, shot and embalmed...
Muralista del 23 de enero…¡nunca cambies!
Del apuro solo queda...
The Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela, the Chavernment’s house-building program, is going into overdrive right before the election. Of course, unintended consequences come along any rushed process, like workplace...
Bolivar's face belongs to some French guy
Since its unveiling to the world, the new 3D version of Simon Bolivar’s face has equally benefited the Chaverment’s media machinery and average Venezuelan buhoneros. Days ago, a...
Our prisons, somehow, are getting more violent
I don’t like to let too much time pass on this blog between reminders of the premiere human rights issue in Venezuela today. Fourteen months after the creation...
Investing Venezuelan oil profits, one crash at a time
Pastor Maldonado’s latest achievement, brought to you by PDVSA: Crashing a Formula 1 car at Los Proceres. As a reader quips, “You can’t make that shit up. PSUV’s...
Your typical Venezuelan highway
Recent events forced me to travel more than once to Valencia and Puerto Cabello ON the main highway that connects Lara, Yaracuy and Carabobo. As you can see...
Is Venezuela a sport powerhouse now? Not really...
The games of the XXX Olympiad are now over. The United States won in the end, Great Britain had their best Olympics in more than a century and...
Conceptual Arroz con Mango: Ethnic Self-Recognition Edition
Picking through the conceptual rubble that is INE’s Census presentation, we find this fascinating slide: No fair! How is it that black people get to decide whether they’re...
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