Barrio Counterinsurgency
Newsweek’s Mac Margolis has an excellent report from Rio de Janeiro outlining the scale of police action it will take to make real inroads into our own problem...
Life
May 10th: Save the Date!
On May 10th, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London is publishing a massive dump of never-bef0re-published Raul Reyes laptop docs: courtesy of a leak-cum-final-parting-fuck-you-from-Uribe-to-his-onetime-protegé. Now that...
Hugo & the Bunnymen
My first reaction, seeing this somewhat macabre Easter-week Chart of the Day in The Economist, is that it has to be a mistake: Really? Venezuela is like a...
Good news for once
It’s Holy Week, so in the spirit of reaching out, and finding common ground, a positive story for once: Chinese officials are touring Venezuela’s ports ahead of a major new...
Giusti's antics put bloggers in peril
Don’t miss the latest on Setty’s ongoing tussle with former Luis Giusti-led company Alange Energy. Lawyers are filing papers all over the world!
Checking In
So I was finally released from the hospital this morning, after receiving treatment for a very aggressively bleeding duodenal ulcer. My red blood cell count still sucks, so...
Alek goes all-out on Santos
Fellow blogger Alek Boyd has an article over on The Commentator about Colombia-Venezuela relations. It’s a provocative read – the title alone should tell you that. I get...
AD should be expelled from the MUD (Updated)
The allegations contained in Wikileaks are damning for AD and its leaders. Even though the cables are old (2005-2006?), the stuff they contain suggests that Acción Democrática has...
We interrupt our 100 post challenge...
Wow… so I just found out Quico is in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer! I don’t know the details, but I spoke to his wife and he’s...
Rude, brusque, arrogant, overly sensitive, unimaginative, repellent, and a show-off
Normally, I stay away from Wikileaks because most of it is simply gossip. But this one … I simply couldn’t pass up. El País has the background on...
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