El Caracazo nuestro de cada día
So I’m just now – far too late, I know – settling down to read Mirtha Riveros’s La Rebelión de los Náufragos, a blow-by-blow account the pivotal second...
Life
A new benchmark for development, ctd.
A reader agrees with JC that Chile is getting closer to be a developed country: “I can speak from experience… What I have seen throughout my many visits...
SIDOR goes into collision course
After Ferrominera’s internal election, the situation inside Guayana’s empresas básicas is getting more intense by the day. Steel-maker SIDOR is undergoing big change. Rafael Gil Barrios, current president of the...
The bachaqueros are still at it
Remember the bachaqueros? The goajiro gasoline smugglers from Zulia State are not taking the recent crackdown on smuggling sitting down. When the Army and the National Guard were...
Bolivarian Navy's mysterious accident
The Brazilian press is reporting that this Venezuelan Navy ship ran aground near the port of Fortaleza last Friday. The PC-22 patrol vessel “Warao” was about to take part in joint...
Not even the Olympics can rescue TVes's ratings...
I found this astonishing: Rubén Limardo’s gold-medal winning effort in London got about 1/3rd to 1/5th of the ratings on TVes as the regular old Telenovela gets every...
A moratorium on comments-about-comments
Juan is right. Comments-via-Email probably does run counter to some deeply ingrained Venezuelan cultural values. That’s a singularly bad reason to oppose it, though, just like Venezuelans’ deep...
Captain, we may have hit a cultural barrier
My first day thinking about the new comments section, and about the (mostly negative) emails we’ve been getting about it, got me thinking whether an approach that works...
It's hard out here for a rapidito...
In cities like Barquisimeto, public transport means more than just buses. Some routes are covered by what’s known here as carritos por puesto or rapiditos: passenger cars that...
My take on the comments ruckus
I was off skiing on the face of a volcano in Chile’s Patagonia for the weekend (yes, you can envy me now), so I’m a little late to...
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