That uncomfortable feeling
A reader writes, Latin America ranks dead last among regions in the world on perceived safety in the streets, per a Gallup poll. Venezuela is the country where...
Life
Guayana's Other Rubén
The last three years have been hard for Guayana union leader Rubén González: In August 2009, as leader of the main workers’ union at Ferrominera Orinoco, he led...
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A modest proposal...
…sometimes I love Panfleto Negro.
All the Self-Aggrandizement That's Fit to Print
Another anniversary, another chance for El Nacional to remind us that the one thing standing between the republic and an outright return to full-scale barbarism is…El Nacional.
Domingo Sifontes and Luis Oliveros up for another round on the gas subsidy
So after the heated controversy in the blog last week, I thought I’d invite Domingo Sifontes and Luis Oliveros to a “derecho a réplica”. Acá la tienen. En...
Photo of the Year
Love it.
The great public security swindle
Some unusual posters appeared in the streets of Caracas last Monday. Generic obituaries that remind us that violence is still out of control. The number of casualties in...
And the Gold Medal in the Mindless Politization of Olympic Victory Dash goes to...
…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...
44 years later, a Venezuelan wins Olympic gold
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...
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