The Ombudsman declares war... on exotic smoking pipes
People’s Ombudsman (and former PSUV deputy) Gabriela Ramírez has taken the initiative for once and stop her usual routine of blaming everything on the IV Republic. She asked...
Life
Fox Suspends Henhouse from Mercosur Pending Democracy Restoration
Well, we know one place Nicolás Maduro will not be seeking asylum when chavismo loses power… Update: Is Maduro planning to make a statement about this?! Jesus!
CeaseFire: What it's going to take to break Venezuela's violence epidemic
Notice the metaphor in that title? “Violence epidemic”? We hear that kind of figurative language all the time. But what if violence really is an epidemic, or behaves...
Luisa Estela Morales, Space Cadet
The chairwoman of our Supreme Tribunal has found herself a new priority: Protecting Venezuelan outer space. “The ultraterrestrial space is one of the aspects established in our Constitution...
Mercosur Musical Chairs: Paraguay Out, Venezuela In (and it makes zero difference...)
Well, that didn’t take long: in the wake of Fernando Lugo’s quickie impeachment, Mercosur has suspended Paraguay’s membership in the trade block…which, magically, removed the one big obstacle...
Necronepotism Chronicles
I mean no disrespect at all to a brave and illustrious lady whose only misfortune was to beget an oligophrenic child but…is there any imaginable justification for a...
MAD-uro
This one is flying sort of under the radar screen: turns out that in the wake of Fernando Lugo’s impeachment in Paraguay, Venezuelan foreign minister (and aspiring dauphin)...
Annals of Rigged Baselines
Loved this bit from Food Minister Carlos Osorio, “In 2003, Misión Alimentación was launched with five shops and today we have 22,306 shops throughout the country, an increase...
Coming soon...
So sorry for the slow start to the year: it’s been tough finding the focus to write as I’ve had my hands full with trip preparation. The good...
Off the beaten path
Just a quick post on two interesting things I read today, from a couple of blogs that deserve more traffic. First off, Off the Wire has an excellent...
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