…Bolívar State governor Francisco Rangel. In fact, the play-on-words is borderline clever – Limardo really is from Bolívar State, so you could call his epée “la espada de...
Francisco “Morochito” Rodriguez is no longer the only one. Fencer Ruben Limardo beat Norway’s Bartosz Piasecki in the individual men’s épée final, taking the first Olympic gold medal...
Would those of you stateside take a break from the Synchronized NBC Bashing and spare a thought for the poor, benighted Venezuelan sports fan? State broadcaster TVes (currently dead-last...
…it’s just ever so slightly different in tone from what you get in Venezuela: Just to be clear: governments do of course have a legitimate need to communicate...
How meta is it that these five Ciudadanía Activa spots denouncing the blatantly illegal use of State resources for campaign purposes just got ordered off the air, for...
Remember this? Yup…two months ago Dan Rather told us president Chávez would be dead by now. Ermmmmm…is it maybe time put in another call to that highly respected...
Guess which country handles in transit 24% of the cocaine that passes through South America? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Here’s my ditty for the International Herald Tribune this week…(and no, I did not write that headline … ugh!)
During one of Chavez’s latest cadenas, this happened: “I don’t always want people to drink alcohol, but when I do, I want them to drink my own brand.” It’s...
Not Chávez, not CAP, but… Ricardo Montalban. Now, that is uncanny. All S-Bol needs now is a midget next to him shouting “el galeón! el galeón!” [HT: hgdam.]
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