Secrets and Lies
In a way, the most remarkable thing about El Universal’s front page story on the murder rate today isn’t that 8,839 Venezuelans have been murdered so far this...
Life
Dystopia Unarmed
Four days of rioting in seven cities. Hundreds of shops looted. Mass disorder on a scale unseen in 30 years. Five dead. Why? It’s simple. In England, nobody...
Searching for black ink, but finding red
Ever wonder how all those chavista companies are doing? Do they make enough to even pay their bills? How much did they really cost? Are the workers there...
Venezuelan Coffee Growers vs. the Frente Starbuckista de Liberación Nacional
There’s a certain guilty amusement to seeing chavistas tangle themselves up in knots having to relearn, through trial and error (and error, and error, and error, and error…)...
Historical trends as revolutionary achievements
Chavista deputy Aristóbulo Istúriz was heard today mouthing off about how Venezuela’s income distribution, the less unequal in Latin America, is a revolutionary achievement, only possible thanks to...
Savage capitalism alert!
Are you in the market for a 1953 Ford Pisicorre with eight seats? Do you want to use it as a boat taxi? How about a brand new laptop,...
Iris Varela, no longer funny
I’ll admit, when Iris Varela was appointed to a cabinet position, I smiled broadly. Iris is a nutter, a loose cannon, the personification of unhinged chavista maximalism, but...
Torture the pots
Over at the Spanish site, I discuss Chile’s new normal and the memories it brings me. And by the way, the New York Times story on the Chilean...
Random chavista paper makes stuff up, Juan gets tangled up
So Juan got a bit tangled in the weird round of allegations and denials about the Venezuelan football team’s supposed – but false – troubles getting a U.S....
U.S. Embassy inserts cleat in mouth (UPDATE: I'm the one with the cleat in his mouth)
Venezuela’s love affair with its national soccer team is strong and growing. The President, the opposition, the media … everyone loves the Vinotinto. Some days, we think it’s...
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