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...
Life
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...
Dissent of the Day
A reader, This bachaqueros article annoyed me. It is kind of harsh to say a policy is ripping away a community and to use a language in which you put...
Annals of Dismal Clip Art
And yes, this is from an official presentation from our official National Statistical Institute… Oh INE…
Chavista oil workers threaten...a paro!
So, with this forthright, very explicit statement refusing to countenance working under a Capriles administration, aren’t PDVSA’s chavista unions in Zulia basically threatening a paro petrolero!? ¡Ni un...
Headline of the Day
Cronología del hueco de la Cota Mil
The only way is bootleg
Long ago, my family loved to watch movies on the weekends, so visiting the video store became a Saturday ritual. That ritual changed along with technology: from VHS,...
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