On the Political Implications of the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chavismo’s long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on...
Life
ENI color you want, so long as it's green
Finally, some truly juicy bits about Venezuela are coming out of the Wikileaks cables. What’s coming out, though, is not exactly what Eva Golinger fantasized about when she...
Musical chairs
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez appointed socialist hyena Andrés Izarra as Minister of Information. He replaces Mauricio Rodríguez, appointed Minister in June. He replaced VTV opinionator Tania Díaz, who had been...
Tomorrow, Today!
My friends, I have seen the future. Not in a Crystal Ball, mind you…but in an Ivory one.
Polar Squeeze
Control enough of its supply chain and expropriating Polar becomes almost superfluous.
Losing Parapara
Lost in the news of the torrential rains soaking our country, some Venezuelans went to the polls yesterday in a Special Election to elect two of the country’s...
Choices
Item 1: Venezuela’s population grows by about 450,000 people each year. At that rate, assuming 4.5 people per household, you need to build about 100,000 new homes every...
Wikileaks is a CIA/Mossad Black-Op to Shut Down Aporrea
…I mean, wasn’t it obvious?
The one unambiguously good thing the gringos are doing in Venezuela
Looking through the Wikileaks cables, it strikes me that there is one unambiguously good thing the U.S. is doing in Venezuela: helping Cuban health professionals escape from the...
It works like the lottery, basically
If people really understood how vanishingly, impossibly small their chances of winning the lottery are, nobody would play. But they do: year after year, decade after decade, generation...
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