His tone-deafness is pathological
Hugo Chávez is traveling through South America, and as we have come to know, this is always good news for South America, and bad news for Venezuela. Case...
Life
Carlos Escarrá: Human Rights Hero
You. Cannot. Make this shit up.
New media is all you need
Last Sunday, Setty informed us that an important pipeline carrying natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela was bombed, possibly by the FARC. He said: “It’s a big deal...
Reshuffling Your Peru Stereotypes
Over in Spanish, Raúl discusses the shifting meaning of Peruvianity.
Grimly Funny: Trip Advisor Caracas
So, a spell of weekend procrastination took me to Trip Advisor’s Caracas Hotel pages and… well, it really is an excellent way to waste half an hour. Behold...
Chávez and Gaddafi: The Axis of Unpaganda
After initially dithering, Hugo Chávez has now decisively taken sides in the rhetorical contest between Muamar Gaddafi and the Sane World. In the face of what is now...
Development is a state of mind
“In this country, GDP per capita could hit $20,000 per year, and people would still think like backwards Latin American assholes.” The words from my Chilean friend shocked...
Dog-bites-man Chronicles
The BBC is shocked, shocked that in Cuba things don’t work. The New York Times is appalled, appalled that there is corruption at the highest levels of the...
What do we stand for?
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
A fundamental unseriousness
If it had the slightest interest in such things, chavismo could build an honest, cogent, powerful case against international intervention in Libya. It could point out the thicket...
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